As of Hippolito, it is very easy to understand if you hang out a bit in the barrios, have a drink with regular folks, watch them play domino, and hear them talk about politics after a couple of drinks...
They speak like Hippolito, and are absolutely the right marketing target for a guy like him. I am actually fearing PRD might return in 2008, in spite of the polls...
For the mainstream dominican, there's some kind of a sainthood veneration of Pe?a Gomez, and they rever the PRD as their party, that deserves their fidelity...
Of course, it's all a big lie since PRD is the most corrupted party in the nation...