Venezuelans rally for president

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Venezuelans rally for president
November 14, 2011
Published: 9:25 am Updated: 9:36 am

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Thousands of Venezuelans have turned out to show support for President Hugo Chavez and his plan to run for re-election next year.

Sunday's rally is one of the few public events that the 57-year-old Chavez has attended in recent months as he recovers from cancer treatment.

He is vowing to win the 2012 presidential vote and another six-year term as he strives to push Venezuela toward socialism.

Chavez urged those at the rally to expect a difficult campaign next year. He says they must persuade undecided Venezuelans to vote for him rather than an opposition-backed candidate who could dismantle his social programs for the poor.

Read more: http://www.13wham.com/news/world/story/Venezuelans-rally-for-president/_JSggF_otEGStjKFPmp0sw.cspx?rss=105

[polly7]

1. Thanks Judi Lynn.

I hope his health is holding up and the cancer treatments are working. He has a huge number of people that depend on him.

"Only six months ago Chávez was, according to pollsters favorable to the opposition, under 40% of approval rating and had only 35% of vote intention – or so they said. The latest polls show just the opposite. The major pollsters such as Hinterlaces, Datanalisis, IVAD and GISXXI all show Chávez way ahead in approval rating – anything from 58% to almost 69% in September and a winning margin of between 53% to 60% depending upon which pollster you believe. The opposition media did not publish the Datanalisis findings which put Chávez way ahead. Datanalisis has never favored the government and so to avoid embarrassment their friend in the media simply hid the results as long as they could.

Chávez popularity is not due to opposition errors. The mass of the voters in Classes D and E are near the social missions and have benefited from them. They know that it is the private sector pushing prices up, not the government. They remember the massacres propagated in the past when certain opposition parties were in power. The excluded are not included and have a decent health service, schools, free university education, subsidized food and authorities that back consumers and not big business or the banksters."

http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/6552

[Judi Lynn]

4. Such interesting info. from the other polling groups, isn't it?

So good seeing your article, and remembering immediately the fact the President of Datanalysis was quoted several years ago in saying he believed Hugo Chavez should be killed.

Here's a refresher on that colossal admission from an "unbiased" polling source:

Rightist pollsters bend to reality as Chavez victory nears
Fred Feldman
Sat, 07 Aug 2004 23:16:19 -0700

>From www.counterpunch.org

Anti-Chavez Pollsters Panic
Fix Numbers; Reinvent Venezuela
By JUSTIN DELACOUR

As the August 15 referendum on whether Hugo Chavez should continue as
president looms in Venezuela, anti-Chavez pollsters have begun
reluctantly issuing polls showing Chavez in the lead. In June, the
Washington-D.C. based polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research
Inc.--working on behalf of the opposition--conducted a poll showing that
49 percent of Venezuela's registered voters would support President
Chavez versus 44 percent that would vote to recall him. Another June
poll by the Venezuelan firm DATOS--also commissioned by the
opposition--gave Chavez 51 percent of support, against 39 percent who
would vote against him.

Recently Chavez challenged other Venezuelan polling firms aligned to the
opposition to release the results of their latest polls. Venezuelan
Information Minister Jesse Chacon has claimed to have copies of these
polls--which favor Chavez--and has threatened to publish them if the
polling firms do not come forward.

One should not mistakenly conclude that these polls vindicate the
anti-Chavez pollsters as "unbiased."Rather, in the hour of truth, some
pollsters--after having long engaged in highly biased polling designed
to demoralize the government's supporters and to embolden the
opposition--will issue less biased polls in a last-ditch effort to
salvage their own credibility in the face of impending defeat.

In early February 2003, the anti-Chavez Venezuelan polling firms
Datanalisis and Consultores 21 held a joint press conference in Caracas
claiming to be "neutral parties"in the country's deeply polarized
political conflict. Just over two weeks before the press conference, I
reported that Datanalisis' President Jose Antonio Gil Yepes had told the
Los Angeles Times in July 2002 that Chavez "has to be killed."I pointed
out that a simple glance at Datanalisis' website revealed "the kind of
blatant political partisanship that one normally does not associate with
respectable polling operations"(as this report goes to print,
Datanalisis' website has been running John Kerry's Chavez-bashing
misstatement at the top of their "news"column for over a month).

More:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg91974.html

That's some kind of radical oligarchy which has been running that country before Chavez, is it not? True a-holes, and murderous ones, at that. Lying is not a problem for any of them. They are too powerful to get worried about how the rabble they call "lumpen" sees them.

Thanks for your comments.

[PETRUS]

2. K&R

[dipsydoodle]

3. Quite right

Thanks for posting.

:hi:

[Judi Lynn]

6. Hi, dipsydoodle. Good to see you!

:hi: :bounce:

[dotymed]

5. Good luck Hugo.

I have been a huge Chavez supporter every since he was elected and immediately began to help the impoverished of his country. I admire the way he has withstood the monied interests in Venezuela and America. the wealth backed coup attempts, sanctioned and carried out by our government against a popularly elected President of a sovereign nation. IMO, this attests, as much as any event that we are aware of , to the absolute control of the wealthy over our country and the world.

Admittedly, some of the bad press that President Chavez has recently gotten, especially his praise of Momar Qaddafi ,made me question my support and praise for President Chavez. Now I realize that the portrayal of Qaddafi in the MSM definitely shaped my opinion of him. I still think of him as a megalomaniac that did way more harm than good. However, that is tempered by the realization that I know only one (very slanted) side the deceased Libyan leader. From what I do "know," I doubt that I would ever respect Qaddafi.

However, Chavez had a "front seat" view of Libya and it's Dictator. I am sure that he is aware of things that I never will be. I will not allow my differing opinion of a Dictator to diminish my support or admiration of a great Venezuelan President. A man that has changed the face of his country, and vastly improved the lives of his impoverished constituents.

Viva Chavez.

[mithnanthy]

7. Thanks Judi Lynn...

We wish him the best of health now and in the future!