But to be fair, it was close.
Now, for the overreach. How long before the opposition demand that Chavez resign? When will the WSJ retract their accusations of vote rigging? How long before Jackson Diehl explains to us how losing by a tiny margin, and immediately accepting the results, is actually a Machiavellian strategy to lull the world into believing that Chavez is a democrat before making the real move? The mind, she boggles just thinking about it.
Update 9:30A.M.: Gawd they are little wind-up monkeys, aren’t they? Oppo blog Caracas Chronicles is already arguing that they should have had a bigger win but Chavez “massaged” the numbers to make it look close. And it totally must be true because election officials took a few hours to tally the numbers. Of course, had the numbers been announced right after polls closed, that would also be a sign of fraud because with a vote spread less than one percent it takes a few hours to tally the numbers. As always, the opposition will eat itself. Buen provecho.
