Mexican Election: Caldron (PAN) leads Olberto (PRD)

[Nbadan]

By about 330,000 votes with about 60% of the ballots counted. Looks like the nightmare scenario some were predicting, a repeat of the triller of 1988 may be happening.

[Nbadan]

To close to call, but I bet FAUX News has already called it for Caldron...

A fiery leftist promising a war on poverty was in a dead heat with a Harvard-educated conservative in Mexico's presidential election on Sunday, raising fears a contested result could split the country.

Luis Carlos Ugalde, the country's top election official, said it was impossible to separate the leading candidates and there would be no result until at least Wednesday.

"The gap between the first and second place is very narrow, and so it is not possible to announce the winning candidate," Ugalde said in a national televised address.

Exit polls said it was a neck and neck race between Felipe Calderon of the ruling National Action Party and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the left-wing former mayor of Mexico City.

Yahoo News

[Nbadan]

Pan (Caldron) Continues to hold its small lead according to El Universal with almost 86% of the vote counted.

[smeagol]

You've managed to misspell both candidates' names.

[Ya Vez]

By LISA J. ADAMS, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
MEXICO CITY - Two bitter rivals declared themselves Mexico's next president Monday as a preliminary tally showed the ruling-party candidate with a razor-thin lead, sparking fears of violence and financial turmoil.

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An official count was expected to take days.

The two candidates were separated by fewer than a half-million votes, with more than 36 million counted in a preliminary tally. Conservative Felipe Calderon had 36.46 percent to leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's 35.41 percent, according to results from 95.9 percent of polling places.

calderon still leading... put dan on suicide watch....

[smeagol]

Thank God Mexico is not falling under the new political wave Latin America is falling, with idiots such as Chavez, Morales and Kirchner taking power.

[jochhejaam]

It's probably good for the U.S. that Calderon wins, the AP reported that Obrador could have been another Hugo Chavez.

[Crookshanks]

Yes, but will he seriously address the illegal immigration issue?

[jochhejaam]

Yes, but will he seriously address the illegal immigration issue?

My understanding is that neither candidate had much to say about I.I.

[2centsworth]

Does it really matter who wins?

[Nbadan]

You've managed to misspell both candidates' names.

Calderon and Obrador. There feel better?

[xrayzebra]

All I want to know: who is Carter and the dimm-o-craps going to send down to
count the hanging chads? This election is a long way from over. Who ever is
declared winner, the other folks are going to be up in arms. lllllooooo.......
Florida and Ohio......

[Nbadan]

The polls are so close, one party or the other is gonna be chapped.

[xrayzebra]

^^Chapped......LOL......understatement if I ever heard one.

[Ocotillo]

sounds like a job for Diebold.

[smeagol]

Yes, but will he seriously address the illegal immigration issue?

This is the least of Mexico's problem.

[Yonivore]

sounds like a job for Diebold.

Send in Jimmy Carter.

[ObiwanGinobili]

This is the least of Mexico's problem.

Obrador had promised to help the poor.
that would be nice.... for someone to actually give a crap about the crushing poverty rampent in mexico.

of course alot of politicians promise a bunch of during the election, not all follow thru.


dam nrthis is a nail biter.

[Ya Vez]

you will always have to poor.... even in the great socialist states of North Korea, Cuba and China.. there are thousands of poor people..... socialism the equalizer of the rich and poor.... LMAO....

[xrayzebra]

Has everyone heard the latest being put out. How wonderful the Mexican voting
system is and we should adopt here in the US.

Just a few problems.

1. Ballots are in only one language. Mexican

2. You must have photo ID to vote.

3. You got to put you finger in the ink when you vote.

Now you know the dimm-o-craps are against all that. Don't you. It just
isnt the right thing to do. Infringes on peoples rights.

EXCEPT IN MEXICO.

right Dan?

And the leftist running in Mexico is going the Al Gore way, lets count everything
again and again, until I win.

[xrayzebra]

you will always have to poor.... even in the great socialist states of North Korea, Cuba and China.. there are thousands of poor people..... socialism the equalizer of the rich and poor.... LMAO....

I thought they were starving in N. Korea, well except for aid they receive
from the mean old Capitalist.

[smeagol]

Obrador had promised to help the poor.

Everybody can say they will help the poor. But more important is for him to tell us how he will do it. And even more important is that it has to make sense.

I don't think he has done this.

[smeagol]

1. Ballots are in only one language. Mexican

Mexican is not a language, ignorante.

[1369]

Mexican is not a language, ignorante.

From a recent time I had a guy from my company (Emigrated to the U.S. legally from Mexico) over in Spain and the confused looks he got trying his best to translate for me over there, I beg to differ.

[Nbadan]

With 95.06% of the vote counted Obrator leads Calderon by .55 points - 36.14 to 35.32.

El Universal