[lbo-talk] Mitofsky on the Mexican election

[Paul]

And this guy is an eminent pollster?!  Good illustration of how devotion to 
"the numbers" provides no guarantee of a sense of perspective nor objectivity.

Paul


>Q: If the PRI had not been in the election, if there wasn't that third
>candidate, where would those votes have gone?
>
>Remember the PRI is a centrist party and got a lot of its strength
>from the poor, the uneducated, the rural people. I would suspect
>that's the group that diminished over the years and I think that's
>why the PRI lost in the 2000 election.