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Venezuela 'poll wars' rage as presidential race heats up
Source: Reuters
Venezuela 'poll wars' rage as presidential race heats up
By Brian Ellsworth and Eyanir Chinea
CARACAS | Wed Jun 6, 2012 1:42pm EDT
(Reuters) - Venezuelan politicians are accusing pollsters of rigging surveys ahead of President Hugo Chavez's October re-election bid, threatening to make the polarized South American nation's campaign even nastier.
Most of the country's best-known pollsters show opposition challenger Henrique Capriles trailing more than 15 percentage points behind the socialist Chavez, whose appeal among the country's poor has stayed strong even as his longtime image of energy and indomitability is dented by his battle with cancer.
Capriles has angrily condemned negative poll numbers as the work of "immoral mafiosos" manipulating results to favor Chavez, while one opposition politician said the government considered using state funds to pay the travel expenses of two pollsters.
It is not just the opposition that is complaining about the pollsters.
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By Brian Ellsworth and Eyanir Chinea
CARACAS | Wed Jun 6, 2012 1:42pm EDT
(Reuters) - Venezuelan politicians are accusing pollsters of rigging surveys ahead of President Hugo Chavez's October re-election bid, threatening to make the polarized South American nation's campaign even nastier.
Most of the country's best-known pollsters show opposition challenger Henrique Capriles trailing more than 15 percentage points behind the socialist Chavez, whose appeal among the country's poor has stayed strong even as his longtime image of energy and indomitability is dented by his battle with cancer.
Capriles has angrily condemned negative poll numbers as the work of "immoral mafiosos" manipulating results to favor Chavez, while one opposition politician said the government considered using state funds to pay the travel expenses of two pollsters.
It is not just the opposition that is complaining about the pollsters.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/06/us-venezuela-election-polls-idUSBRE85512920120606
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