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2006-07-04 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Steve White 2006-07-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ever notice that you never see Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. in the same place at the same time?

Posted by Mike 2006-07-04 00:35|| 2006-07-04 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Conservatives just make a thin majority in North America it seems.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-07-04 00:59|| 2006-07-04 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Fred's Predictable Meter seems to be working just fine.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-07-04 01:03|| 2006-07-04 01:03|| Front Page Top

#4 As long as candidates are willing to say what skilled pollsters tell them the people want to hear, elections will be 'close'. As long as they are close, there will be claims of fraud. And those claims will probably be true (of both sides). But because the elections are so close that small bits of fraud 'matter', the fraud doesn't really matter, because the campaigns have found the 'middle', where the candidates positions are about the same anyway - in a two party race. Once you have a major third party though, the leaders may not be campaigning for the middle voters, but for the extremes, and you get a much more volatile system (maybe even revolution or civil war.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-07-04 06:59|| 2006-07-04 06:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Since the Mexican government has no interest in sealing the border, how about all those millions of AK-47 and ammo taken in Iraq. Wouldn't be nice to run guns the other direction? 8 million illegal workers and family here, so how about 8 million AK-47s to Mexico? It's a feature, not a bug.

Posted by Slomoper Jolumble7671 2006-07-04 09:13|| 2006-07-04 09:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Damn, an original thought, I like it, maybe that "Border Patrol" agent who's vanished is one of the lead men to advance this.(Wishful thinking)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-07-04 11:36|| 2006-07-04 11:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Uh, Glenmore: this was a three-party race.

Posted by JSU 2006-07-04 12:09|| 2006-07-04 12:09|| Front Page Top

#8 JBU
Yes, I know. Comment started as one on fraud but evolved into one on potential effects of third parties.
The statement that both Calderon & Obrador can claim they wuz robbed stands; the question is where does that lead.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-07-04 12:50|| 2006-07-04 12:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Leave it with the Florida Supreme Court. No nead for SCOTUS to get involved. Hail Gaia!

Posted by AlGore">AlGore 2006-07-04 13:51|| 2006-07-04 13:51|| Front Page Top

#10 "Mexican Left seething over vote count"

What, they're ~~moslems~~ Democrats?

Who knew? ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-07-04 15:33|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2006-07-04 15:33|| Front Page Top

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