What you think PJ-Miranda’s Situation Room looks like:
What PJ-Miranda’s Situation Room actually looks like:
Lot’s of activity. Folks hard at work coordinating the Get Out The Vote Drive. Lots of micro-level problem-solving (get out the vote activists who didn’t turn up, machines not working, Pablo Perez’s guys don’t want our guys close to the voting center, that kind of thing.)
No numbers.
Yet.
I’ve been there. Do they have turnout numbers? They should soon
They have them…I don’t…
Puros muchachitos! I forgot that Venezuela is such a young people’s country!
Keep up the good work guys!
(With german accent): “Mein Comandante, I can valk!”
Dr. Strangelove, my favorite movie!
YA VOTE! A little more than a hour, but the thing went smoothly.
Heavy turnout in East Barquisimeto. Not surprising, we’re the Chacao of Lara.
I’m calling it at 12:51pm eastern time (no sources whatsoever) Victor’s projections are heavy turnout of more than 3 million people. Let’s see how the government reacts.
i hope i hope i hope you are right! it took me almost 3 ahours in la concordia in bello monte ;D
my mom has gone twice in her center and the lines are huge so she hasn’t been able to vote. In my dad’s cuaderno at 10:50 am already 6 out of 9 people had voted. Our strongholds are voting massively. If this replicates in at least 40% of our not so strong areas, we will do very well.
I gotta feeling that tonite’s gonna be a good nite.
And now I’ll have that song stuck in my head for the rest of the day. Thanks! XD
It’s a good nite though!! YEAAAAH
They’re already reacting, by dismissing it and mocking with the same bad jokes.
On TV, Chavez talks and talks, outside Venezuela walks and votes.
on the outside Venezuela walks and votes. One nation, two realities
Big turnout in Montreal despite -17(-25 with windchill)
http://devilsexcrement.com/2012/02/12/despite-the-cold-people-in-montreal-showed-up-to-vote-in-opposition-primary/montreal/
Teresa Albanes just took PP to school…
URRRRRL?
It’s live on http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xio7e2_globovision-en-vivo_news?start=3127#from=embediframe
By the way, the venezolanos en el exterior already outperformed the legislative elections!!! It’s gonna be good :)
Sorry, I should have mentioned I’m watching Globo’s live feed on Dailymotion.
Basically, she requested “very cordially, but firmly” that PP’s campaign stop proselytizing, as they’re apparently holding raffles and generally carrying on like it’s a campaigning day. It could have been a general request that all candidates abstain from such actions, but I was impressed she called Perez out by name.
One of the best things about the whole primary process has been the performance of the MUD Electoral Comission and specially the president Teresa Albanes.
Au contraire of the CNE and Tibi, who try to impose respect by arrogance and secrecy, the CEP (Comisión Electoral de Primarias) and specially, Mrs. Albanes has shown that respect can be better earned by being open, decent and efficient.
If someone was taken to school today was the CNE and the Plan republica, who have made some serious (and possibly deliberate) attempts to slow down the process, but they have failed to stop the great turnout happening.
Meanwhile in La Victoria, Chavez praised Boves. #MotherOfUslarPietri No shame…
Cuidado Tibi, Socorro te quiere serruchar el trabajo y tal vez Chavez se lo de.
I’ll wait until the primer boletín before I start praising Ms. Albanes.
OK. Fair enough.
Still, I’m very pleased so far with her performance, compared it to Tibi.
In my center (small in Chacao) the line was particularly long. Main reason though, only 1 machine assigned, when usually they use 3. Don’t know if it is the same thing in other centers. The point: not to confuse long lines with actual turnout
“Meanwhile in La Victoria, Chavez praised Boves. #MotherOfUslarPietri No shame…”
For what?
He killed lots of white people. He used racism and resentment to the worst extent. Most white were whipped from the Llanos by Boves.
… out from the Llanos
No shame of prasing J.T. Boves, who fought (not directly) for the spanish empire against Bolivar and brought destruction to the country, as quoted here from Arturo Uslar Pietri’s “Cuentame A Venezuela”, one of my favorite books ever. Page 94. Translation by me.
“…he commits the worst attrocities; …destroy whole populations, attacked women, children and old people. he sieged and burned the few remaining properties and he abandoned the fields. It was a war of unlimited destruction…”
Matter of fact, if you read the chapter about Boves (Pag. 93 & 94), is not hard to understand why Chavez admires him.