Reply #25: Would disagree on one point (though I can't prove it)

[rpannier]

I am stillof the belief that the referendum failed because it had too many issues on it.

I am no huge Chavez supporter (he lost me when he was fawning over Gim Jeong-il two years ago), but I felt after that election that he needed to break up the referendum into single issues and let people vote on each individually.

Let the voters decide on the merits of each one.

If the vote passes then it passes, if it fails, it fails.

In the end let the voters decide