Evo easily wins (Bolivia)

[rabs]

Telesur reporting exit polls give Evo 62 percent, after he earlier predicted he could win nearly 70 percent.

Evo to address the nation later tonight.

OAS observer mission chief Horacio Serpa: "It was a massive, civic, happy and totally peaceful day."

Telesur advance:

http://www.telesurtv.net/

[Judi Lynn]

1. Bolivia's Morales Re - Elected - Exit Polls

Bolivia's Morales Re - Elected - Exit Polls
By REUTERS
Published: December 6, 2009
Filed at 5:05 p.m. ET

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales easily won re-election on Sunday, three television exit polls showed.

Morales received at least 61 percent of the vote, according to exit polls released by the private TV channels ATB, Uno and PAT.

Morales needs to garner more than 50 percent to avoid a second round and can also win if he takes 40 percent and holds a 10-point lead.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/06/world/international-uk-bolivia-election-exitpolls.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

[Judi Lynn]

2. Beautiful! Hope he gets 70%. It would make a wonderful statement. Thanks. n/t

[Peace Patriot]

3. Rotters headline: "Evo Fails to Win Predicted Mandate"

Associated Pukes: "Evo Win Disappointing Amidst Charges of Election Fraud"

New York Slimes: "Friend of Hugo Chavez Loses More Votes Than Expected in Bolivia"

Wall Street Urinal: "Evo Wins, Democracy Loses"

Washington Psst: "Gas and Oil Profits Buy A Lot Of Votes in Bolivia"

Miami Hairball: "The End Is Near! Commies! Terrorists! Hugo!"

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:puke:

[Judi Lynn]

4. We'll be seeing something VERY close to those headlines by tomorrow!

The usual dipsticks will be racing to their keyboards to get them posted, too.

http://www.rstolley.com.nyud.net:8090/usa_view.jpg
They may have to have another anti-Chavez parade in Miami just to calm down.

[Peace Patriot]

5. Judi, you do have the most wonderful collection of photos & graphics!

Do you suppose drawing this map was what Junior was occupying himself with instead of reading National Security Memos in early September 2001? Did he maybe send it to Tony-boy as a pwesent?

Lord, it's so like his mind.

[Thickasabrick]

6. LOL....I love that!!!!

[Judi Lynn]

7. The creator absolutely MUST be one of the more gifted Republicans! n/t

[Judi Lynn]

8. Bolivia's Morales claims re-election, control of Congress

Bolivia's Morales claims re-election, control of Congress
December 07 2009 , 11:19:00

Bolivian President Evo Morales claimed a landslide re-election victory yesterday as voters backed his left-wing policies of Indian power, social spending and state control of industry.

Official results were not expected until later today but quick counts showed Morales took at least 63% of the vote, more than 35 percentage points ahead of his closest challenger, rightist former governor Manfred Reyes Villa.

Morales, an Aymara Indian, is Bolivia's first indigenous president and is hugely popular among the Indian majority that also supported a constitutional reform earlier this year to allow him to run for a second consecutive term in South America's poorest country.

"Brothers and sisters, we now have an enormous responsibility ... Your vote won't be in vain," Morales said on Sunday night from the balcony of the presidential palace, addressing thousands of supporters who waved rainbow-colored indigenous flags and shouted "Evo Again! Evo Again!"

Exit polls projected Morales would also win control of the lower house of Congress and a two-thirds majority in the Senate, where the opposition had tried to block some of his reforms in his first term.

More:
http://www.sabcnews.com/portal/site/SABCNews/menuitem.5c4f8fe7ee929f602ea12ea1674daeb9/?vgnextoid=79e6171553865210VgnVCM10000077d4ea9bRCRD&vgnextfmt=default&channelPath=World

(As in the case of ALL corporate spinners, this source wants you to be aware of what the Bolivian "critics" think about this. They "forgot" to mention the Bolivian economy has been bounding FAR ahead of ANYTHING the previous Bolivian Presidents have accomplished in an enormously long time. Probably an oversight, eh?)

[Peace Patriot]

9. Great news! Thanks for posting! Morales/MAS won control of the Senate, too!

I've been looking for news of the legislative elections. This completes Morales' victory. It is total. He won by at least 63% of the vote--an enormous landslide (which must mean that he picked up support in the white separatist enclaves in the east)--and Morales reformers are in control of both houses of the legislature.

And I totally agree with your comment:

"(As in the case of ALL corporate spinners, this source wants you to be aware of what the Bolivian "critics" think about this. They "forgot" to mention the Bolivian economy has been bounding FAR ahead of ANYTHING the previous Bolivian Presidents have accomplished in an enormously long time. Probably an oversight, eh?)"

Our putrid corpo-fascist media will never acknowledge that--as with Hugo Chavez's immense popularity in Venezuela, and Rafael Correa's immense popularity in Ecuador--Evo Morales' popularity is based on his performance in office--his competence, and the competence of his people, his smarts, his excellent management of the economy, and his advocacy of the values of the great majority of Bolivians, such as social justice, and REAL democracy.