[La Enchiladita]

Thanks, I did get around to learning more about the Zapatista Liberation Army and their masked leader Comandante Marcos.

According to what I viewed on Spanish language TV last night, they campaigned for Lopez Obrador.

Not good.

I remember when the uprising started in Chiapas... early '80s?

[freedumb2003]

According to what I viewed on Spanish language TV last night, they campaigned for Lopez Obrador.

That is no more a surprise than Al Jazeera campaigning for J F'ing Kerry.

I specifically remember the last foray by the Zapatistas -- I was in Nuevo Leon at the time.

[conservative in nyc]

With 98.39% in, Calderon's PAN leads by about 398,000 votes and a little over 1%. There are likely (at most) 596,000 votes yet to be counted. The socialist PRD would have to take about 67 percentage points more of the remaining vote than the PAN in the remaining precincts to take over the lead (i.e. 67%-0% or 80%-13% - the PAN can't take more than 17% of the remaining vote for the math to work). A PRD win is even close to a mathematical impossibility, if not a political one.

The bulk of the remaining vote is still from the PAN-prefering NW of Mexico.

It's all over but the protests, assuming the preliminary count is correct.

	Actual	Actual %		Projected (by State)	Projected %
Calderon (PAN)	14,020,162	36.38%		14,251,608	36.42%
Dinosaur (PRI)	8,313,759	21.58%		8,452,343	21.60%
Socialist (PRD)	13,621,676	35.35%		13,807,222	35.29%
New Alliance	384,144	1.00%		391,116	1.00%
Alternative	1,085,756	2.82%		1,102,585	2.82%
Write-in	281,069	0.73%		285,366	0.73%
Null Votes	826,862	2.15%		839,362	2.15%
Total	38,533,428			39,129,602
Precincts Reporting	128,680
Total Precincts	130,788
PR%	98.39%