El Pais reporting that Hugo Chavez has won in Venezuela

[flamingdem]

http://elpais.com/

Elsewhere I'm reading that they will shortly announce a win by one million votes.

en espanol

Los primeros datos oficiosos otorgan una holgada victoria a Chávez
Maye Primera Caracas 1228

Las filtraciones indican que el presidente continuará seis años más en el cargo. La comprobación de la identidad de los electores alarga el proceso varias horas

[hrmjustin]

1. What will be will be. It should always be up to the people.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

2. Hell yeah! nt

[Puregonzo1188]

3. Is anyone surprised?

[flamingdem]

6. The Venezuelans in Miami are already yelling fraud

of course.

[pa28]

15. And the political right in this country is doing the same thing.

All of it based on a bogus "exit poll" showing Capriles with a small lead.

[flamingdem]

16. shades of tricks to come Nov. 6

shudder

[pa28]

17. Capriles conceded.

I was worried about the possibility of another coup attempt.

Hopefully nobody is relaxing too much yet.

[flamingdem]

18. I'm worried about GOP trickery

I'm wondering if Nov 6th will be a nightmare

Let's hope it's a landslide to the degree we don't have to go through a drawn out disaster

[Luminous Animal]

11. His approval rating was 66% in April. He'd have to murder his mother to lose the election.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Chavez 54.43 Capriles R 44.47. Per the CNE. nt

[flamingdem]

5. Chavez turned out some 3 million yesterday

[Dawson Leery]

7. Whatever one may think about Chavez, these supporters are legitimate.

[flamingdem]

8. Exactly. And the election is not fraudulent

and was monitored in a visit by Carter

[Dawson Leery]

9. Those photos were taken by multiple news agencies worldwide.

There was no "photoshop" or "doctoring" of the images.

[flamingdem]

12. This is an excellent thread - neighboring countries wanted Chavez, Capriles another Neo-con

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11085828

[bananas]

22. Thanks for that link. nt

[Starry Messenger]

25. What a glorious sea of red.

[Luminous Animal]

10. And yet, to many DUers, he will still be a dictator.

Despite international vote monitoring and Jimmy Carter's assessment that their election process in the best of all countries that the Carter Center has moderated. Better than the U.S.

80.94% turn out, we can only dream of such an engaged democratic citizenry.

Chavez: 54.42% 7,444,000 Capriles: 44.97%

[Scootaloo]

27. Some DU'ers hate the idea of the left succeeding at anything

And to defend this nonsense, they argue that the left should succeed at everything.

You know. Utopia or bust.

[Luminous Animal]

13. Kick

[pa28]

14. Maybe you really can't keep a good man down.

Woot!

[RB TexLa]

19. Shocking, shocking I tell you

LOL

[Major Hogwash]

20. Of course he won.

"The boys in Chicago fudged the numbers. lost the debate, so the boys changed the numbers."

See, it can work with almost anything!

New Orleans beat San Deigo, 31-24.
Why?

"The boys in Chicago fudged the numbers. lost the debate, so the boys changed the numbers."

[flamingdem]

21. They could say Carter was in on it

and he's connected to the boyz in Chicago!

I'll go check the Miami Venezuelan blogs to see if they're accusing anyone but I think they are just drinking and trying to forget

[mcdornan1]

23. I'm glad to hear that.

I hope there was exit polling and observers. The Right all over here and Latin America will be screaming about voter fraud.

[flamingdem]

24. Carter said their elections are the cleanest in the world

or something like that -- and I don't see much on twitter about fraud - they probably knew he'd win so it wasn't ever that close

[B Calm]

26. I guarantee you they have cleaner elections than we do!