and most important you're
Post by C***@KNICKLAS.COMsilly beliefs can't be backed by any credible evidence
What evidence, I live that way now. I don't let others, or elections
decide my destiny. BTW, in July I'll be in Mexico to protect my interests
from the results of the election there.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling party presidential candidate appears
to be pulling away from his leftist rival after aggressive TV ads propelled
his dramatic surge in an election race being fought on economic policies.
A closely watched poll in the Reforma newspaper on Wednesday showed Felipe
Calderon, a conservative, with 40-percent support among probable voters and
his left-wing challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador trailing at 33 percent.
Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor who promises to put the poor
first, had been Mexico's most popular politician for three years and was the
clear election front-runner until last month. A Reforma poll just seven
weeks ago had him 10 points ahead of Calderon.
Calderon then launched a series of aggressive campaign ads that painted
Lopez Obrador as a danger to Mexico's economic stability and compared him to
populist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. They appeared to work despite
Lopez Obrador's claims that he was the victim of an electoral "dirty war."
"The negative campaign of focusing on candidates' weak points, their
defects, has brought good results," said Irma Mendez, a political analyst
with the respected Latin American think-tank FLACSO. "Although many people
don't like negative campaigns, they are effective."
Lopez Obrador also shot himself in the foot by opting out of a televised
presidential debate last week and repeatedly snapping at President Vicente
Fox for campaigning on behalf of Calderon, the candidate of Fox's party.
Fox, who is forbidden by law from running in the July 2 election, remains
popular and some voters saw Lopez Obrador as disrespectful.
COURTING INDEPENDENTS
Pollsters say Mexico has a massive bloc of independent and undecided voters
who could still change their minds. Lopez Obrador was drawing more support
from that group but Calderon has won over many of them in the last month.
Calderon moved past Lopez Obrador in the Reforma poll for the first time
last week with a three-point lead. He then gained more ground by doing well
in the presidential debate.
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The red skunk could win, only because of these socialist ideas that many
immigrants to the US, that have returned to Mexico, have brought with them.
But if that skunk, Obrador wins, I'll have to protect my trailer from some
new Commissar that might knock on the door and say something stupid like,
"there is enough room in your trailer for 3 families to live in." And
unlike the Dr. Zhivago character, I will not reply with a, "more just"
comment. MX wouldn't be in this mess if it wasn't for the insatiable drug
appetite in the US. You have the reds in the south, and the drug mafia in
the north, causing all the instability. The reds will always be somewhere,
but the drug-mafia is a US caused problem.