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Llego Papa! Funny in a sad sort of way...
NO WAY...R u kidding me? Didn't think he had the remotest of chances. Now MVM says up to 200,000 PLD sympathizers voted for Hippo...it is going to get ugly within The PRD. On the other hand this should assure The PRD does not get back in power fro at least the next 8 years, which I'm completely fine with...
It's their own fault for not having a membership-only convention. Whether or not it was distorted by PLD supporters voting, this is a gift for the Leonel camp. Now Leo can declare his reelection plans in a messianic, the-nation-needs-me-as-its-saviour gesture. Not that Vargas was electable, but Hippo...
My [Dominican] husband was distressed, to put it mildly, that Papa won. One of the articles he read said that Miguel is contesting the results. I guess time will tell, but things could get very dicey until after the election.
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This is crazy! I'm online 'chatting' via instant messager with a bunch of my dominican friends about the results and I am amazed they have forgotten what happened under his previous administration! One of them said that it is all Media and PLD 'propoganda' about the banks failing and was not his fault that the banks failed. He believes that Mejia can change the current economic situation and find him a job! My head is spinning with such 'crazy talk'!
Fact it is. My son in law was ecstatic this morning at breakfast. Either way I'm happy that Vargas didn't make it. He's too much a Leonel wantabe and as crooked.
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I saw him entering a rally at a Santo Domingo hotel. I was looking down on him from a balcony as he came in. He entered the lobby to the cheers of his supporters. He looked lost.
He's always impressed me as being a slug like character with zero personality and zero charisma.
He's always impressed me as being a slug like character with zero personality and zero charisma.
His SUV was at Embajador when I left today. Didn't get a chance to say hello. I don't really care, just curious about what's going to happen during his term. They will probably blame him for the current debts that Leonel will leave us with. Business as usual.
The only people that are happy are those that "think" they will get a job or a handout.
Any half intelligent Dominican is shaking their head.
Pretty much everyone I have spoken today, young and old laughs as they can't believe how stupid their countrymen are.
It's one thing to win the support of your "party", it's another to win an election.
When you combine the depth of the PLD pockets and the new opposition that just arrived, they have got to be smiling.
I wonder what unfortunate PR firm will be asked to look after Hipolito for the 2012 elections?
Any half intelligent Dominican is shaking their head.
Pretty much everyone I have spoken today, young and old laughs as they can't believe how stupid their countrymen are.
It's one thing to win the support of your "party", it's another to win an election.
When you combine the depth of the PLD pockets and the new opposition that just arrived, they have got to be smiling.
I wonder what unfortunate PR firm will be asked to look after Hipolito for the 2012 elections?
Did it have extra secret storage space like the plane they impounded in Florida?
I remember the bus to save fuel etc. That lasted all of 2-3 days, then they went back to the 10-15 SUV motorcades.
