Funny, how the exit polls indicated the opposite:
Conservative candidate Felipe Calderon has won Mexico’s presidential election, according to preliminary results.
Electoral authorities give Mr Calderon the narrowest of margins of just over 1% ahead of his leftist rival, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
But Mr Obrador said there had been inconsistencies in the voting returns and that he would challenge a victory by Mr Calderon.
The results will not be verified until a final count later this week.
“I won the election… it is irreversible,” Mr Calderon of the National Action Party (Pan) told Mexican television.
But Mr Lopez Obrador, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) said he would not accept “what we all know is a preliminary result,” the AFP news agency reported.
“There are many inconsistencies,” the agency quoted him as saying.
I remember reading that Rove always wants close elections. These elections, if conducted fairly, would be losing elections for his party. Rove’s technique is to cheat and suppress the vote in advance enough to make it “too close to call,” then cheat some more, just enough to force a slim win for his side. The closeness of the election produces turmoil, anxiety, uncertainty, confusion and disruption, all of which make it easier for Rove to put the finishing touches on his project to steal the election with minimal evidence.
Didn’t Calderon have a GOP advisor? I seem to recall hearing about it on the news….
Yes, apparently the Bush people worked closely with him.