Poll says Chavez loses Venezuela referendum lead, Reuters reports:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has lost his lead eight days before a referendum on ending his term limit, an independent pollster said on Saturday, in a swing in voter sentiment against the Cuba ally.Forty-nine percent of likely voters oppose Chavez's proposed raft of constitutional changes to expand his powers, compared with 39 percent in favor, a survey by respected pollster Datanalisis showed.
Just weeks ago, Chavez had a 10-point lead for his proposed changes in the OPEC nation that must be approved in a referendum, the polling company said.
Despite the swing, company head Luis Vicente Leon said he did not rule out a comeback by the popular president.
Chavez has trounced the opposition at the polls on average once a year and can deploy a huge state-backed machinery to get out the vote, Leon said.
Dictator Chávez is not amused by the polls, which may be why he makes new threats. The Associated Press reports:
President Hugo Chavez warned his supporters on Friday that anyone voting against his proposed constitutional changes would be a "traitor," rallying his political base before a referendum that would let him seek unlimited re-election in 2012 and beyond.Brandishing a little red book listing his desired 69 revisions to Venezuela's charter, Chavez exhorted his backers to redouble their efforts toward a victorious "yes" vote in the Dec. 2 ballot.
"He who says he supports Chavez but votes 'no' is a traitor, a true traitor," the president told an arena packed with red-clad supporters. "He's against me, against the revolution and against the people."
The last quote says it all, I think. Like a mediaeval king, Chávez really believes he is the people. That's only one step from declaring himself a god.
I don't think the last quote is about thinking he is a king (although he probably suffers from a severe case of megalomania), it is probably more about inciting his supporters to put any opposition "back in line", by any means necessary, without explicitly saying so..
The "King-analogy" doesn't mirror the ideological and historical content of Chavez aspirations. An "Il Duce-analogy" does though!
Vad du gör är att sprida desinformation för sanningen är att Chavez leder i alla möjliga undersökningar man har gjort. Det skulle annars vara konstigt för reformen är verkligen för majoritetens fromma. Säger du emot det visar bara att antigen
1) har du inte läst det
2) är en betald propagandist
3) eller mest troligen är du en sådan skit som kallar sig demokrat men egentligen fruktar konkurrensen och demokrati för innerst inne vet du att du en medelmåtta och en lögnare.
Här finns informantion som har kommit idag.
According to Consulting data of the Alemica company, 59% of the Venezuelans would vote by "Yes" to the propose Constitutional Reformation by the president of the Republic, Hugo Chávez, if the electoral referendum were made today, whereas 37% of the population would vote by "Not". To thus it indicated to Consulting Negrón Miracles, representative it of Alemica, in interview with journalist Dahir Ral, according to numbers of the last survey made by the consulting company between 21 and 23 of November of 2007 at national level, to a universe of 1250 people those who he was asked to them which is the alternative by which it would vote in the next elections of the 2 of December? The representative of Alemica explained Consulting that the interviews were applied to people of different tendencies, is to say sectors that support to President Hugo Chávez and opponents of the different social layers (Classes To, B, C, D and E) in the main cities of 22 states of the country. The survey reflects in addition that 80% of the Venezuelan population would go to vote, which reflects a participation discharge of the citizenship.