Watch that inevitability narrative shift...
Finally somebody gets it. It’s not “Chávez is comfortably ahead in the polls.” It’s “while Chávez has a big lead according to plainly biased pro-government pollsters, serious independent...
Finally somebody gets it. It’s not “Chávez is comfortably ahead in the polls.” It’s “while Chávez has a big lead according to plainly biased pro-government pollsters, serious independent...
Over on the IHT, I review the way Capriles has radically overhauled the opposition’s brand, broadening its appeal both geographically and socially. In the heat of the moment,...
One way this presidential campaign has already paid off is in the trove of great writing that it’s been inspiring. First, this magnum opus by Boris Muñoz, first...
An expanded version of that Reuters story just came out in Spanish, with extra juicy detail. Here’s a fun one: La fábrica de fertilizantes en Puerto Nutrias, un...
Make of this what you will: when Consultores 21 asks voters outright whether they will vote for Chávez or Capriles, 7.7% say they’re undecided. When, instead, they give...
The neverending story of BusCaracas, the chavista Bus Rapid Transit project that’s faced more crises over the year than a Telenovela heroine, may finally be coming to an...
The Governor makes his case in this, one of the final videos of the campaign. I asked a friend close to the Comando Venezuela why Capriles didn’t emphasize...
It really is an extraordinary situation: I don’t think we’ve ever faced such a bizarre, contradictory opinion polling outlook less than two weeks ahead of a vote. The...
It really is David vs. Goliath. I set the stage over at the FP blog.
Well-regarded pollster Varianzas says: Chávez 49.7%, Capriles 47.4%. The number of people that say the economic sitation in the country is “bad” goes up from 43.4% to 47.2%....
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