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I don't agree that there is any crisis

Submitted July 3, 2006 - 1:25 pm by Jules Siegel
Your comments, always welcome, don't dispute any facts that I have reported. They simply impute motive ("you want a crisis")

Al, please don't play rhetorical games with me. I think that you want a crisis and it shows in the heated, breathless tone of what you write. I don't see any facts in your article that support your idea that a crisis and chaos are happening. AMLO has already pulled in his horns. Your comments about fraud are 100% speculation. If you've got anything concrete, let's see it.

Oaxaca is just one state. Please don't draw inferences from a place that's got its own long history of troubles that have boiled over into an intractable confrontation.

and express your own asthetic tastes against "old fashioned" campaigns and in favor of "modern" (US-style) political discourse.

It's not an asthetic taste. It's just plain practical politics. This kind of incompetence worked when the PRD and the PRI were still one party. If Calderón does win, it's because the PAN's mastery of modern media technique gave him the edge over AMLO.

Even by the official results in which you seem to have such uncritical faith, more than 64 percent of Mexicans that voted chose the "old fashioned" paths,

Good point. Unfortunately it wasn't good enough because it didn't pull in the votes they needed to win.

in the coming days you and the rest of the world will see the evidence that the official results are riddled with bad counting, dirty tricks, and an unlevel and unfree process.

You know that for a fact? Do you have any examples? All counting processes are subject to error. You can't count a number like 73 million and get it the same every time, just as you can't put a bullet through the same hole twice even if you clamp the rifle to a bench.

So now the PRD is going to pull its usual protests and martyristic tantrums and nitpick the results? If they try this and they fail to show effectively and clearly that there was a concrete pattern of fraud that went against their side, they will begin the way down the path that led the PRI to third place.

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