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| Breitbart at 0129 EST: Chavez Loses Constitutional Vote |
| 2007-12-03 |
 CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez suffered a stinging defeat in a vote on constitutional changes that would have let him run for re-election indefinitely, the chief of National Electoral Council said Monday.Voters defeated the sweeping measures by a vote of 51 percent to 49 percent, Tibisay Lucena said. |
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| #12 Like the EU Treaty, Darth? |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2007-12-03 21:13 |
| #11 Since they have always been at war with Eastasia, he'll probably declare an emergency. Weirdly... isn't that the same thing the nuts say about George Bush? |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-12-03 14:10 |
| #10 Constitutional changes should require a supermajority. |
| Posted by: KBK 2007-12-03 08:57 |
| #9 It gives me some considerable satisfaction that al-Gor must hear this news and wince. All his fake awards will never add up to the presidency he tried to steal. I hope it sits in his gut like a stone. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-12-03 08:41 |
| #8 He will either redo the vote, or find enough "votes" to make it stick. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-12-03 06:52 |
| #7 No problemo. He will just schedule another vote. |
| Posted by: Rambler 2007-12-03 06:43 |
| #6 Considering he only got about 30% of the total vote (40% didn't vote at all, leaving roughly 30% voting NO and 28% voting SI) he is lucky to get as close as he did. The real "traitor" is the person who didn't vote at all. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2007-12-03 01:51 |
| #5 I wanted to drive by Citgo headquarters and jeer, but Niles hid the car keys. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2007-12-03 01:11 |
| #4 I'm sure by the time "all the votes are counted" Chavez will have won. Or, he'll just do it all over again and make sure a former American President is there to observe. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-12-03 01:03 |
| #3 Does this mean we have to tell the Marine Expeditionary Force to stand down? The jarheads get edgy when they haven't overthrown two regimes before breakfast. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-12-03 00:56 |
| #2 It's better thant the EUSSR though. We have a "socialist revolution" i.e. beurocrat coup, and we don't get a vote. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2007-12-03 00:48 |
| #1 If he rigged 12 points, he'd be a winner, but he thought 10 points would be enough. |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2007-12-03 00:46 |