Early reports Hugo Chavez 55% Capriles 45%

[flamingdem]

Hugo gana

[joshcryer]

1. I was wrong.

Oh well.

Flame incoming.

[polly7]

2. Because it's all about you ...

[joshcryer]

3. I said I'd admit I was wrong if I was.

I did that.

Problem?

Chavez won by 26 points in 2006. This time only 10 points. That's a 16 point drop. I knew that Capriles was eating away at him but it was truly a David vs Goliath scenario. I shouldn't have been so optimistic.

[sabrina 1]

7. Lol!

[hrmjustin]

4. I thought that they might want change, but it looks like they want their president where he is.

[flamingdem]

5. The neighboring countries also wanted a Chavez win

I'm not sure of all the reasons but someone posted about that here.

[joshcryer]

6. As did I. Capriles is still well loved by 45% of the population.

I guess I was too much into the bubble. It was always an uphill battle for Capriles though.

[sabrina 1]

8. The people of Venezuela know what is best for them. Now maybe the Right Wing supporters

in this country will just accept that their Right Wing cohorts in Ven are simply not wanted by the people there. It's encouraging to see that despite all the Western Anti-A-Democratic Venezuela and of course, Chavez personally, the Venezuelan people are not that easily fooled. They remember what their country was like under that kind of rule.

I guess they thought that they could fool the people with Capriles, pretending to be a moderate. By trying with someone like him who they were passing off as someone who would not undo Chavez' work, it is an acknowledgement finally that they simply cannot be open with a Right Wing candidate, they are so unpopular there.

I'm very happy Chavez won, he is an historic figure in that region, helping to get the entire region out from under the control of the Western Corporate Powers.