Including whoever writing for AP:
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- Sixteen years after his Sandinista revolution was defeated at the ballot box, Daniel Ortega is still trying to get his old job back. This time he even has a member of the Contras, once his worst enemy, as his running mate.
And after another trademark peace-and-love campaign featuring his former guerrillas in pink and John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance," he may just win.
Since he was voted out in 1990, he has twice failed in similar campaigns to persuade Nicaraguans that his revolutionary past ended with the Cold War. Eager to move on from their civil war and fearful of a U.S. backlash, they chose less polarizing figures.
Now 61 and balding, Ortega is the front-runner in the Nov. 5 race, in part because so many have lined up to beat him. [...]
<http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/17/ortega.election.ap/>
-- Andy