. . . “Right” — “Left” — “Right”!

“Now The Leftist Has The Lead In Mexico” announced the Los Angeles Times page one this AM. I can almost feel the glee that the editorial board must have felt writing that headline. We couldn’t get it done here in ‘00 or ‘04, but at least they got it right (uh . . . make that Left!) down south o’ the border. Think the Time’s writers have ever gotten over Florida in ‘04?

Coming after a campaign that was one of the nastiest the country has seen, the drama of the vote count served as an emotional and divisive experience for many Mexicans, much as the 2000 Florida recount saga was for many Americans.
(…)
Federico Martinez, the PRD representative at the District 10 counting table, objected. He insisted that one ballot box the electoral board refused to recount contained two ballots more than reported on the tally sheet.

Word of the conflict filtered outside the building, riling the small crowd of protesters.

“Multiply those two votes by thousands of polling places and they add up,” said Lidia Andrade Rodriguez, 43. “We’re going to fight for those two votes.”

The seven election officials conducted the count around a large table, in the presence of party representatives and a score of independent observers. The scene bore a faint resemblance to the examination of Florida’s infamous hanging chads.

What a difference a couple of hours makes. Whereas online they now grudgingly state: “Tally Favors Conservative in Mexico, Leftist to Fight” Drudge has this from Reuters: Mexican conservative wins tight election battle

Mexico’s conservative presidential candidate, Felipe Calderon, snatched a razor-thin election victory on Thursday, but his leftist rival vowed to fight the result in the courts and on the streets.

The Harvard-educated Calderon had an insurmountable lead with 35.87 percent of the vote and only a few dozen polling stations pending. Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute said it would declare the winner on the basis of these overall results.

Can’t blame the Lefties at the LA Times for wishin’ it ain’t so.

Lopez Obrador said he would call his followers to a massive rally to protest the result on Saturday in Mexico City’s central square, the beginning of what officials say will be a “peaceful and legal” effort to overturn Calderon’s victory before Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal — and in the court of public opinion.

(Yeah, we should wish for our Southern neighbors the same Hate-Conservatives-Derangement that is so prevalent in the US. That’ll work, oh, ya betcha!)

Keep on wishin’ it ain’t so — But, It. Is. So. Heh! (db)

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