Mexico held its presidential elections this past Sunday. Vicente Fox's election in 2000 broke a 71-year dynasty rule by the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) that was known for its corruption and nepotism (sounds a lot like dook basketball...)
Anyway, the two frontrunners, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the PRD (Revolutionary Democratic Party) and Felipe Calderón of the PAN (National Action Party, also the party of Vicente Fox) are pretty much in a dead heat after the first recount. The numbers have Calderón leading by 0.3% with 99.2% of the votes recounted, so I guess technically it's still anyone's game. And we thought Florida in 2000 was bad!
Who do I think would make the better president? Well, I don't know where each of them stands on everything but I do tend to favor moderation in general. Seeing as how Lopez Obrador is on the extreme end of the left wing and Calderón is much more in the center I have to hold with Calderon. I think Calderon will do much more good for Mexican citizens living in the US. Lopez Obrador seems to me to be a scaled back version of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's president (who is right in line behind Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in my list of Nutjob World Leaders) and I don't think he's so great for Mexico's future.
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