July 6, 2006

THANKS, DIEBOLD:

Mexico's Calderon Has Insurmountable Lead (LISA J. ADAMS, 7/06/06, Associated Press)

Ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon built an insurmountable lead in Mexico's presidential vote count Thursday, but his leftist rival vowed to challenge the results in court.

With 99.56 percent of the vote counted, Felipe Calderon would win even if all the remaining votes went to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party. He had 35.82 percent of the vote, compared with 35.37 percent for Lopez Obrador.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 6, 2006 1:45 PM
Comments

ObraGore.

Posted by: John at July 6, 2006 3:52 PM

No, only if Obrador had won the popular vote, but Mexican electoral rules still awarded the victory to Calderon, would he be like Gore.

Posted by: Chris Durnell at July 6, 2006 4:44 PM

I'll withold my opinion until Jimmy Carter weighs in.

Posted by: Fred Jacobsen (San Fran) at July 6, 2006 5:12 PM

Chris Durnell:

They've got their rules, we've got ours. The point is that neither Gore nor Obrador cares.

Posted by: Matt Murphy at July 6, 2006 8:19 PM

And it looks like their rules are better than our rules.

Imagine a US election with those safeguards. How much would the Democrats lose by then?

Posted by: Pepys at July 6, 2006 8:40 PM
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