Tipping Point Circuits: Yaracuy 3 and Sucre 1
Caldera's home base and the dirt poor Caribbean Beach Paradise that is Carúpano are the other circuits that could conceivably tip us over into a 3/5ths majority.
Politics, actually
6D will deeply transform Venezuela's political landscape. How? By reintroducing politics into it.
Tipping Point Circuit for 3/5th Majority: Zulia 4
Following on from our list of most likely Tipping Points for the simple majority, we turn to the 3/5th majority. Because three seats have been added to the...
Tipping Point Circuits: Lara 2 and Guárico 2
Other possible Tipping Point Circuits for the 84th (simple majority) seat are much more rural, and see the opposition at its cotufa best, running a farándula columnist, a folk singer, and a former CNE commissioner.
Tipping Point Circuits: The Simple Majority
The circuit most likely to bring the opposition its 84th curul is home to two well known, widely loathed chavista incumbents - Ernesto Villegas and Freddy Bernal - being challenged by two newcomers.
Chavismo is a Machine for Not-Negotiating
In a governing party where Intransigence is treated as a cardinal virtue, the first politico to propose negotiating with the opposition will be a kamikaze.
A Political Assassination in Altagracia de Orituco
AD's Secretary General for Guárico State is gunned down right in the middle of a campaign event, signalling a troubling new stage in the campaign.
Poll-yanna Chronicles
Every poll published this cycle and every seat projection, in one place. Thanks, Jimmy Wales!
Nicolae and Nicolás
6D matters, but not for the reasons you think. It's not a parliamentary majority that's at stake, it's the regime's cohesion.
What the Hegemony Has Wrought
Why does the regime need censorship? So when it comes out that the President is Godfather to a big-time drug trafficker, people don't hear about it.
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