Quico says: Just to pick up on Alek's lucid postmortem, I'll add some thoughts of my own. I think the best way to go about dissect...

Quico says: Well, Manuel Rosales kicked a huge amount of ass at his press conference yesterday (download part of the audio here.) The guy ...

Quico says: This one's too good not to post. Sorry to say it's not really translatable.

Quico says: Don't miss Alek Boyd's brief day-after statement.

Quico says: Ojo Electoral, a Venezuelan elections monitoring NGO, posted observers at 337 randomly chosen voting tables (mesas de votación)...

Quico says: One refreshing thing about last night's election is that, for the first time in years, the National Electoral Council itsel...

Katy says: First off, the CNE website is already publishing detailed results by voting center. This is a welcome change, and we are finally ...

Quico says: Last night, the Recall Referendum season was finally closed. Rosales' concession marked the end of the long, barren, surrea...

Katy says: Manuel Rosales has just given the weirdest speech. It started out being very non-comittal one way or another, then he said he is...

Katy says: In light of today's events, where people linked to the campaign were echo to rumours giving victory to Rosales and declaring...

Quico says: With 78.3% of actas tallied... Chavez: 61.4% (5,936,000 votes) Rosales: 38.4% (3,716,000 votes) A fucking debacle...

Quico says: That's with well over half the actas tallied. Expect a first CNE bulletin soon.

Quico says: Sources with access to CNE's tallying room say Chávez is ahead by at least 20 points, perhaps 24 points. This is not an exi...

Quico says: Or that's what Reuter's has, anyway.

Quico says: After months of government threats to shut down TV stations that publish elections results before http://www.blogger.com/img/gl...

Quico says: Teodoro Petkoff, speaking for Rosales, says the day's voting went well, but there have been some problems after the end of ...

Quico says: Is it still gossip if Reuters is carrying it ? Consultores 30.11 coordinated an exit poll with Evans/McDonough Co., a U.S. pol...

Quico says: Rosales campaign representatives are on TV right now saying that Plan Republica (military) officers have forced poll workers to...

Quico says: Yes, it's hair-pulling time. CNE's ban on publishing exit poll results has stuck better than anyone could've expect...

Quico says: The "blank votes" problem is coming about because people are using the voting machines wrong. You have to press the o...

Quico says: Manuel Rosales has just told the press that they've noted cases where people who vote for him get blank paper receipts. He ...

Quico says: Well, the big day is here. The tense wait, the hours and hours of increasingly nervy wondering...it's an election day tradi...

Katy says: Inside sources confirm that the latest private DATOS poll puts Chavez's margin at 11 percentage points, down from 22 or so. S...

Quico says: For reasons I can't understand, the formatting goes all out of whack when I post a web poll. Please scroll down to register...

JayDee says: I've seen Chavez speak in person twice in the last few weeks. Both times, he had his audiences eating out of his hand, wea...

Quico says: Check out the the audio of parts of Leopoldo Lopez's press conference in Caracas yesterday. It's heartening to see th...

Quico says: Check out the opposition's fascist destabilization plan's instruction manual...damn coup-mongers.

Quico says: Clearly, a large part of the opposition is still seriously concerned that the government will commit numerical fraud. Unlike in ...

Quico says: Well, here's the seriously disturbing audio of part of that Rosales town hall meeting. Rosales is, um, not a natural spea...

Quico says: To understand the next few days, you need to understand one key fact: it's in the government's interest to bait the op...

Quico says: Well, as usual, my hit-count is going berserk as Sunday's election draws near. Hello new people! Caracas Chronicles has be...

Quico says: Well, here's the final survey slide, with the latest Evans McDonough poll added: Click to enlarge As you can see, I've ...

Katy says: Last night, Globovisión held a town-hall meeting with opposition candidate Manuel Rosales. It was an interesting broadcast since...

Quico says: Check out this impressive overview of the Poll Wars by Phil Gunson in the Miami Herald. Polls offer vastly different predictio...

Quico says: Actually, there are eight logical possibilities: Care to hazard a guess how this will go? Which scenario do you think is most l...

Quico says: The way I see it, the history of the next few years depends on what happens on Dec. 4th. Basically, there are 4 ways this could...

Katy says: I'm going to follow up on Quico's post and work through the second of the four scenarios: the possibility that opposition...

Quico says: Yesterday I posted on the underlying issue at stake in this election: a tricolor Venezuela, or a monochrome red one? Two differ...

Quico says: If you ask me, the best part of Rosales' campaign was the way he set up the contrast between his "Tricolor Avalanche...

Katy says: After a brief trip due to work and family obligations, I am back at my desk full-throttle for this exciting election week. This i...

Quico says: Well, I added two more polls to the Recent Surveys chart; one by Ipsos/AP and a second by Zogby/U. Miami. Again, I leave out su...

JayDee says: The big day draws ever closer, though you would never know it walking around Caracas. Sure, there are rallies and marches ever...

Quico says: OK, enough with the phone-based tracking polls. What are real field surveys saying? Below is a selection of recently published ...

Quico says: Sigh. Nothing takes the sheen off of a juicy leak quite like seeing the leakee interviewed at length the next day on ND. In t...

...for they bring us the juicy polling reports that don't show up in the newspapers. Quico says: Well, a pajarito put a copy of Hinter...