...which even Rotters itself admitted back in March:
"...only one recent poll, by local firm Consultores 21, has put Capriles anywhere near Chavez, just 1 percentage point behind. Three surveys earlier in March found Chavez’s support at between 52 percent and 57 percent, versus 22 percent and 34 percent for Capriles."
http://100r.org/reuters/venezuelas-chavez-leads-rival-in-latest-poll/
But, hey, it's getting closer to the election and Rotters is among the top Chavez bashers that dare to parade as reliable news organizations. So they have a motive to pick out the least reliable poll and headline it, now. They fervently with all their dark little hearts and using every low trick that corporate journalism school has taught them, want Chavez defeated. And, as we have seen before on many events that our transglobal corporate rulers and war profiteers want to come true, they start writing their "narratives" long before things happen, in order to help make things go their way. Never forget the exit polls in 2004, which the "respected" polling firm, Edison-Mitofsky, CHANGED to fit Diebold's and Karl Rove's results, subsequently hiding the real data that said that Bush/Cheney HAD LOST.
Polls can be and are manipulated, and corporate 'news' organization can and do pull words like "respected" ("Respected pollster Consultores 21..."
out of their hats, when they are hot to manipulate impressions--encourage some voters, discourage others, give rightwing politicians and their campaign organizations a boost, discourage leftists, etc. Indeed, they are notorious for manipulating the "news" to favor the 1%.
If the corpo-fascist press is to be believed, Chavez isn't really the president of Venezuela. He just somehow got the office by osmosis or a coup or something. On the last presidential election in Venezuela, all we heard about from the corpo-fascist press was the rightwing "talking points," which made Chavez's huge victory in that election seem totally baffling. Venezuelans voted, in huge numbers, for an incompetent, buffoon dictator? Wow, what stupid voters they must be!
So their articles about their "great white hope" (Capriles), at this point, need to be taken with a grain of salt. These 'news' sources always have an agenda. They are always manipulating and propagandizing their 'news' 'consumers.' But never more so than when a Leftist is running for election in Latin America. Look at their predictions for Leftist Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, and for Leftist Cristina Fernandez in Argentina, for instance--two of the most popular presidents in LatAm. Basically, unelectable, according to the unreliable corpo-fascist press and their "respected" pollsters. But the voters of LatAm--the poor, anonymous, unrespected people at the bottom--keep blowing these corpo-fascist predictions and hopes all to smithereens by voting for leaders whom they know will do "the will of the people." Latin Americans have done their civic homework on honest elections--which we haven't done here--so the poor majority has a chance against the corporate press and its chosen fascist leaders and their non-stop brainwashing.
So we will see if this happens once again, in Venezuela--Rotters and brethren, and their "respected" pollsters, saying it's close, and it not being close at all. It is very difficult to make predictions with the corporate 'news' so utterly screwed up, there and here.
Here's an excellent article on the machinations of the corporate 'news' on Chavez/Capriles--from the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), called "Manufacturing Contempt," by Keane Bhatt. A must read for understanding just how twisted articles like the above OP from Rotters are:
http://nacla.org/blog/2012/6/18/our-man-caracas-us-media-and-henrique-capriles
(found at: http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/7065)
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