Hurricane Hugo Downgraded?

Well, this can't be. Or, perhaps it won't be allowed to be come election time. Could it be one of the Left's heroes will resort to thuggish tactics to steal an election and the Left will continue to celebrate him, because he didn't have a Supreme Court to do it for him, don't ya' know?

CARACAS, Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez's bid to sell Venezuelans on sweeping constitutional reforms is coming up short, according to a new poll Saturday that shows voters opposing the changes by a strong margin.

The survey was conducted by Caracas polling firm Datanalisis, whose polls ahead of past votes have consistently matched Chavez's electoral victories. It found about 49 percent of likely voters oppose Chavez's reforms, well ahead of 39 percent who favor the changes.

"Chavez has never gone into an election without being an overwhelming majority from the beginning," Datanalisis pollster Luis Vicente Leon told The Associated Press. "This is the first time it's reversed."

Comments

[Yoda]

Campesinos, not as dumb as Chavez thinks, they are.

[southdakotaboy]

It will be interesting to see if Jimmy and crew will be allowed to watch these elections for voter fraud.

[DANEgerus]

He's lost the last two elections... but both were declared 'victories' by simply reversing the counts.

With Jimmy's help...

I fail to see how this one will be any different.

[seekeronos]

"--- He's lost the last two elections... but both were declared 'victories' by simply reversing the counts.

With Jimmy's help...

I fail to see how this one will be any different. ---"

Of course, having the Venezuelan Red Army at his beck and call will ensure that the vote goes "correctly"... regardless of what dissenting voters have to say about it.

Scratch a "democrat", and you'll find an totalitarian thuggishness each and every time.

[Capitalist Infidel]

Thats absolutely correct, I was following the election online and when I went to bed with 85% of the vote in Chavez was down 17 points, when I woke up he supposedly "won" by 17 points

By the way I'm curious. It's students and "intellectuals" who are against Chavez. Aren't these the people democrats and liberals respect?

[seekeronos]

"--- By the way I'm curious. It's students and "intellectuals" who are against Chavez. Aren't these the people democrats and liberals respect? ---"

The hardcore democrat and liberal partisans respect *nobody* except their deep-pocketed donors (like Soros).

Rather, the "intellectuals" who side with the Reds are often completely unaware that they were supremely duped, often being given a false sense of prestige within the Party until their usefulness runs out, or those of their number who start cluing in when losses of personal freedoms starts to touch them where it hurts.

It is at that point that they find that their uncalloused hands can do little to free them of their overlords... and it is often much, much too late for that society at that point.

[rwilymz]

El heffe Hugo built his political voter base upon the impoverished and uneducated, whom he promised all jobs. And he came through. He's virtually the only politician in the hemisphere who's ever kept that campaign promise.

Of course, he did it by nationalizing the Venezuela's leading industry -- oil -- and throwing all the engineers and technicians out of their jobs and hiring the banana growers who voted for him. Never mind that those jobs need college edumacation to be able to perform. With the current price of oil even an incompetently-run oil industry can make money.

And it's a good thing, too. He's got a bunch of client states to keep in clover. Fake army fatigues don't grow on trees, at least trees that grow in Cuba, and select premium cigars are a niche market: Fidel needs money to travel to Spain for transfusions.

Bolivia, cashing in any legitimate chips they hold and deciding to become a de facto exporter of cocaine, needs to meet payroll until such time as the transition is made. ...not to mention for all those times that its cash commodity is seized by virtually every nation on the planet and destroyed.

Go figure that students are seeing their college educations go for nothing in a nation which overtly rewards inability and sees knowledge as a vice. What a surprise that the intellectuals [read: anyone with a pre-Hugo job] are seeing in Chavez's policies and edicts a grasping for the same authority he failed to grasp in his abortive coup.

At some point, American apologists for "voter revolutions" which overthrow ossified and/or excessive examples of **Da Man** will have to undertsand that the replacements are just as ossified and excessive as what they supplanted and after a few years in office become, themselves, the same **Da Man** worthy of being replaced.

Hugo's run his course. Now if we can just get Jimmy Carter and Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte to understand that.