Ratings boost for Chavez ahead of Venezuelan vote

[Judi Lynn]

Ratings boost for Chavez ahead of Venezuelan vote
Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:53am EDT
Tight race for Sept. 26 parliament elections
* Socialist president's popularity recovers
By Frank Jack Daniel

CARACAS, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Polls show Venezuela's parliamentary election is a tight race between President Hugo Chavez's allies and his opponents, but Chavez's rising popularity and favorable election rules may tip the balance.

Chavez's traditionally high popularity -- in the 60s and 70s percentage range during his best moments of a more than decade-long rule -- was hit this year by a recession, electricity and water supply problems, and high crime. But new polls show that a recovery in his personal ratings, which began several months ago, continued in August, giving him cause for optimism ahead of the Sept. 26 National Assembly vote, which is seen as an indicator for the 2012 presidential election.

In recent weeks, Chavez has begun campaigning in earnest and after months of austerity the government has started pumping up the import sector, as well as offering cheap credit to consumers, creating some sense of economic recovery.

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A new survey by pro-government pollster GIS XXI said 52.6 percent of respondents planned to support candidates allied to Chavez, while 47.4 percent backed the opposition.

More:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN129936720100914?rpc=401

[Peace Patriot]

1. This was more than "a ratings boost for Chavez." The most reliable poll: approval 65%!

(way down in the article, with a lot of Rotters fudge around it).

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They just can't understand how a leader whom they have said can't do anything right, ever, could get such a bounce back in the polls, not only up to his consistent 60% approval rating over the last ten years, but surpassing it--65%!

What do Venezuelan voters know that Rotters & brethren have tried their best to keep the world from knowing?

1. The Chavez government has been great for Venezuela, on the whole, in solid, provable ways that Rotters & brethren have NEVER REPORTED.

2. The Chavez government is quite COMPETENT--both as to long term policy and handling crises (such as the unusual drought that affected hydroelectric power), but you wouldn't know this from corpo-fascist reporting, which headlines a crisis or problem but NEVER follows up on Chavez government ACTIONS.

Whether Chavez's huge approval rating will translate into a solid majority in the National Assembly is, of course, yet to be seen. Those are the tighter numbers. The rightwing candidates may have novelty on their side. They boycotted the last by-elections--refusing to participate in Venezuela's honest, transparent, internationally monitored and certified election system, because..."Wa-a-a-a-h!"...they were gonna lose. It had only been three years, at that point, from their coup d'etat attempt, in which they suspended the Constitution, the courts, the National Assembly (that they are running for now) and all civil rights, after kidnapping the elected president and threatening his life if he didn't resign. (He refused.) So, hey, Venezuelan voters were going to give them a drubbing--and they just took the ball and went home in a huff. But it's now been five years since all that, and eight years since they tore up the Constitution, and, although Venezuelan voters have long memories, some of their heads might be turned by these potty-trained sort of rightwingers (USAID "trained"), so we shall see what happens.

But you gotta sympathize with the AGONY of Rotters reporters having to report Chavez's dramatic uptick. You can feel it in all that fudge at the bottom of the article. Pobrecitos!