Defender: I'm not sure what you're pissed off about. Everybody knew this was going to happen. I've said many times that I don't see Leonel pulling this one off (I hope I'm wrong). I've explained their strategy which is exactly what you see unfolding right now. Next Ortiz Bosch will accept to be the party president and will support Hippo. She's already done some of that, by letting her supporters free to support the party. Then it's Hatuey's group.I already something to the effect that all the legislators who supported him are now going to join Hippo's campaign. In addition they alreayd started courting the PRSC and guess who they are going to support...It's a sick world.
Hipo just started a program of inauguration of newly finished public works. This is going at a blistering pace...All of sudden they've got money to finish all these projects that have been sitting unfinished for years...
For instance, they just finished the road that goes by my house in the DR. This is been fulll of potholes for ages and they're paving almost all the other ones in the town. Hippo was just there for the inauguration and according to my niece, everybody came out onto the streets waving white flags, etc...in support of the PRD. They already forgot all the bad this government has done...
The way I see it going down is like this:
First round - Leonel gets somewhere around 45 - 48% of the vote. Hippo around 40 and the PRSC the rest.
Second round - The PRSC supports Hippo. Leonel gets even less votes than before, since a lot of the people who voted for him in the first round are not hard core PLD members.
We get Hippo for four more years and the PRD for about 12 more. The Dollar wil be at about 100 pesos to 1...The dominican people complain how bad the government is.