Hugo Chavez wins fourth term as Venezuela president

BBC ^ | 7 October 2012

[Racehorse]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has won a fourth term in office after defeating opposition leader Henrique Capriles, electoral officials say.

Mr Chavez won 54% of the vote, the country's electoral council announced.

Noisy celebrations among Chavez supporters erupted across the capital Caracas following the result.

Turnout was 80% in the hotly contested election and voting was extended beyond the official closing time at some polling stations with long queues.

[Racehorse]

Anybody surprised?

[Jonty30]

Shocked, I tell you!

[Olog-hai]

Of course he did.

Old saying: “The Devil takes care of his own.”

[Viennacon]

The banana republic marches on

[Tzimisce]

Those who vote decide nothing.

Those who count the vote (like Chavez and his supporters) decide everything.

[Defiant]

It’s not official til Jimmy Carter approves. This just in: he does!

[Perseverando]

It’s not the people who vote; it’s the people who count the votes.

[DesertRhino]

The cancer will get him soon. Maybe a sane replaceent can happen then.

[Democrat_media]

This is what is in store for America is this monster Obama wins here in a few weeks. It's time for us to step up. The time is now.

In Venezuela ,there are shortages of food in the stores. Socialism always brings rationing , shortages, poverty, oppression, slavery and great suffering. This is what we have in store for America if this POS Obama wins.

I met a man from Venezuela who told that Chavez said the same things Obama did when it was first running. Socialists are all the same everywhere.

[oust the louse]

I thought this guy was on his death bed?

[One Name]

here we go!

Stability in the region is assured. May Hugo be smitten with a large dose of Godsmack.

Hope he enjoyed the run.

[Sarah Barracuda]

A little voter fraud here, a little voter fraud there, and you have Chavez winning. Somewhere, Obama is asking for those guys to count the votes here

[luvie]

Wow! So NOT surprised!

[NoLibZone]

As predictable as our regimes economic report.

They sat next to each other in the 400 series Marx classes.

[luvie]

Heck....Castro’s been dying for decades! Who doesn’t think
this monster will outlast us all, too!

[WXRGina]

Yep. Why do we imagine the “mainstream” polls here in America are showing “Obama” with close to 50 percent of the country’s vote? “They” are just prepping us for massive election fraud on Nov 6th, because that criminal creep in the White House does not have NEARLY the support the media portrays.

[musicman]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Racehorse. Congratulations from the Obama White House will be Fast and non-Furious.

AP PHOTOS: Caracas bustles as people buy food, pick up voter IDs on eve of presidential ballot

[SeminoleCounty]

I’m sure Sean Penn is thrilled.

[USNBandit]

There are some turds that refuse to flush