Al G - 7-2-2006 at 11:40 AM
Maybe way to Gringo, but it stirs the imagination and comforts the soul if your candidate is leading.
----and that would be???????
Barry A. - 7-2-2006 at 11:42 AM
Al G - 7-2-2006 at 11:48 AM
Barry if I answered that I would have to move the thread right?
Al G - 7-2-2006 at 11:55 AM
I am actually more interested in if they have exit polls.
Al-------
Barry A. - 7-2-2006 at 12:00 PM
------that IS a good question you pose, and I do not know the answer----------I mis-read your post, and thought you knew 
I wonder when we can expect to get an idea of who is ahead? This could be the most interesting (and scary?)result in years, es verdad?
bajalou - 7-2-2006 at 12:06 PM
I don't think exit polls are allowed, at least nothing can be broadcast till after all the polls close.
Al G - 7-2-2006 at 12:11 PM
I hate to turn on the TV on Sundays, but I think I'll check CNN
Al G - 7-2-2006 at 12:27 PM
Cannot find anything yet, but this has alot of good info
http://www.mexicodaily.com/
bajajudy - 7-2-2006 at 03:06 PM
Just went to the store and the voting places are very crowded. Had been watching coverage on the tv and the words "muy tranquilo" were used over and
over again in various locations around Mexico.
After the polls close there will be coverage and possibly exit polls but I think that it is illegal to announce anything about the results until they
close
I read somewhere that they expect 60% of the population to vote. What is it in the states....like 30%?
30%????????????????
Barry A. - 7-2-2006 at 03:13 PM
Judy---------no way it is 30%----------at least in the high 40 percentile, isn't it??? Lazy Americanos!!!!
60% is great, by normal standards, but lets not run the USA down THAT much. 30% ????? that can't be (can it??)
bajajudy - 7-2-2006 at 03:57 PM
National Average
% of voting age population (VAP) voting in last midterm election (1998) = 36.4% % of voting age population (VAP) voting in last presidential election
(2000) = 51.3%
I stand corrected
Couldnt find anything on 2004
bancoduo - 7-2-2006 at 06:09 PM
How many of you are being fed By Azteca America [fair and balanced] you must be feeling safe. Your casitas will not be taken from you. PAN rules;
there chopper in DF shows the commie on his way to make his consession speech before the polls are closed on the pacific time
zone. 
Diver - 7-2-2006 at 06:30 PM
From Reuters at 6:05pm Pacific time;
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential election is too close to call with the main candidates locked in a tie, exit polls said on Sunday.
The extremely close vote raised fears of a political crisis if either or both of the candidates challenge the results and call street protests.
Exit polls showed the result was too close to call. Pre-election poll leaders showed Felipe Calderon of the ruling party and Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador, the left-wing former mayor of Mexico City, in a virtual tie.
The Federal Electoral Institute was expected to announce official results at around 11 p.m. If it is unable to call a winner, Mexico could face days
or weeks of legal wrangling and protests similar to the fight that followed the U.S. presidential election in 2000.
That would spook Mexico's financial markets, which are already nervous about Lopez Obrador's economic policies.
He campaigned on promises to end two decades of free-market reforms and pull millions out of poverty with welfare benefits and new jobs in ambitious
infrastructure projects.
"Lopez Obrador is the only one who can bring a new Mexican revolution where the poor are the ones who win," said Amalia Rodriguez, a 19-year-old
student in Mexico City.
Lopez Obrador was the red-hot favorite for most of the campaign but Calderon closed the gap with aggressive TV ads painting his rival as a danger to
Mexico's economic stability and linking him to Venezuela's anti-U.S. firebrand President Hugo Chavez. Continued...
comitan - 7-2-2006 at 06:45 PM
Banco
Facts just the facts, TV Azteca live from Mexico City, is saying not possible to determine the winner at this time.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bruce R Leech - 7-2-2006 at 06:50 PM
polls closed at 6 pm here about 2 hours ago they were getting ready to count all 83 ballots: in Mulege lol:
bajalou - 7-3-2006 at 09:41 AM
From another forum I watch
For up-to-date information on the election results, go to the IFE
(Federal Electoral Institute) website:
http://www.ife.org.mx/prep2006/
Click on one of the icons and you will see the actual vote count. As
of 9:41 AM, Mazatl?n time, with 97% of the votes counted, Calder?n has
a .97% (less than 1%!) lead over L?pez Obrador.
bajajudy - 7-3-2006 at 09:54 AM
Good one Lou
Thanks
Jeez is this going to be a mess or what. Hold on to your sombreros.
bajalou - 7-3-2006 at 10:03 AM
And what about the "Votos Nulos" 2.24% Certainly enough to start some trouble.
