One Month before Venezuela’s Presidential Election Polls Show Huge Leads for Chávez

[Nbadan]

14 years and counting....

One Month before Venezuela’s Presidential Election Polls Show Huge Leads for Chávez
By Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, September 18th 2012



With just one month left before Venezuelans go to the ballot box, a survey of recent opinion polls shows significant leads for Hugo Chávez in the race to be Venezuela’s next president.

The average of all 13 polls carried out in August and in the first week of September, saw Hugo Chávez on 51% and Henrique Capriles on 35% giving Chávez an average lead of 16% (See table 1).

Such a lead would translate into an advantage of more than two million votes for Hugo Chávez on October 7th.

Of these 13 polls surveyed, 11 gave a lead for Hugo Chávez and just two put the main challenger, Henry Capriles Radonski, ahead. (See chart 1 to the right).

In the 11 polls putting Hugo Chávez ahead, all but one gives him a lead of between 13-28%. In contrast, the two polls that put Henry Capriles Radonski ahead gave him leads of just 2% and 4%.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/files/imagecache/block_node_images/images/2012/09/sx1u_augustpollleads.jpg

http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/7264

[Nbadan]

This is interesting...

Chavez Rival Maintains Lead in Poll Ahead of Oct. 7 Election


Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski maintained his lead over President Hugo Chavez in the latest survey from Consultores 21, a Caracas- based polling company, less than three weeks before elections.

Capriles had 48.1 percent against 46.2 percent for Chavez in a poll taken at the end of August, Consultores 21 President Luis Christiansen said yesterday at a conference hosted by the Council of the Americas in New York. The survey of 1,000 people was taken in the last two weeks of August had a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points, Christiansen said.

Chavez, who is seeking to extend nearly 14 years in power with another six-year term, is facing his toughest electoral fight yet after his opponents buried their differences and unified behind a single candidate. Pollsters are divided on who has the advantage in the race.

“If we were to make a linear projection for the election, it would be that Capriles will maintain an advantage of 2.5 percent over Chavez,” he said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-19/chavez-rival-maintains-lead-in-august-consultores-21-poll-1-.html

Capriles is pro business, but not like the US "pro-business"...his watchdogs actually regulate industry and help the poor as opposed to blaming them...

[Nbadan]

Chavez vs. Capriles: Corruption takes center stage in Venezuela's election


Venezuelan presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski expelled a top aide last Thursday amid corruption charges that could prove damaging to his campaign less than a month before Election Day.

Deputy Juan Carlos Caldera was filmed receiving a cash payment from a blurred-out figure, which Mr. Caldera claimed was a donation for his own mayoral campaign. Government officials are alleging the money was a bribe for political favors related to Mr. Capriles’ campaign, however.

President Hugo Chavez's challenger quickly distanced himself from the episode and denounced the act: "I’m never going to permit anyone use my name for their own personal benefit,” Capriles said.

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"Corruption in Venezuela has definitely increased," says Mercedes de Freitas director of the anti-corruption NGO, Transparencia Venezuela. “The size of the state has increased, public workers and funding have increased. However, the systems of control and penalties have not." Venezuela currently ranks 172 out of 183 countries on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, the lowest rated country in the region except for Haiti.

http://www.minnpost.com/christian-science-monitor/2012/09/chavez-vs-capriles-corruption-takes-center-stage-venezuelas-electi

[CosmicCowboy]

So the Commie is winning in Venezuela too?