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Only thing that could make this better would be to be pulled by a steam locomotive rather than the diesel, but that is just lil' old me thinking back to another time.....
love this video. thanks for posting it.
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[OMANTRIBUNE] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's popularity has jumped in the run-up to Sunday's crucial legislative election, but probably not enough to prevent an opposition victory, a new survey by a leading pollster said.
Thanks to public ire with a brutal economic crisis caused by dysfunctional controls and the oil price plunge, the opposition has its best shot in 16 years at winning the National Assembly from the ruling Socialists.
But in a boost to the hopes of government candidates, Maduro's popularity jumped more than 11 points to 32.3 per cent in late November, according to the survey by Datanalisis seen by Rooters on Tuesday.
Who's doing the counting?
The firm's head, Luis-Vicente Leon, said this week the ruling 'Chavista' movement, named for Maduro's predecessor, Hugo Chavez, had reaped reward for going on the attack against foes, distributing resources in key districts, and reviving the memory of the popular former president during the campaign.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the Democratic Unity coalition, which groups all main opposition parties, remains in pole position, with 55.6 per cent planning to back the opposition, and 36.8 per cent the government, the survey said. "The main uncertainty is not whether 'Chavismo' or the opposition will win, but what type of majority the opposition will obtain," Leon added in an opinion article this week, saying Maduro's popularity bounce would not swing the election.
The opposition is benefiting from Venezuelans' anger at the world's highest inflation, widespread product shortages and long lines to shop for basics.
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Well, that's what socialism does to an economy.
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I'm sure he can get Jimmy Carter to come on down and validate his reelection.
Yesterday's excitement in San Bernadino can be seen here, as I type this at 6:00 a.m. ET second on the list on the main page. I imagine more details will be filled in as they become available.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
