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Mexico Election Being Watched Here CHICAGO (WBBM Newsradio 780) -- Mexico faces weeks and possibly months of uncertainty after the leftist presidential candidate called for a recount of election results that showed him trailing his conservative rival by 1 percentage point. Mexican voters living in the United States overwhelmingly chose Felipe Calderon, the candidate for the National Action Party, or PAN. According to figures obtained from the Mexican Consulate in Chicago, about 57 percent of Mexican voters living in the United States voted for Calderon, versus about 34 percent for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador-who represents the Democratic Revolution Party, or...

Mark Stevenson, Canadian Press Published: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico faced the possibility of weeks to months of political uncertainty after the leftist presidential candidate - trailing his conservative rival by a percentage point - called for a vote-by-vote recount, alleging millions of missing votes. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who campaigned on uplifting Mexico's poor, trailed business-friendly rival Felipe Calderon by more than 400,000 votes in a preliminary count - although electoral officials say they'll declare no winner until after a time-consuming official count that begins Wednesday. There were some fears that Lopez Obrador's refusal to...