Mexicans can't decide either on Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama
Not that they have a vote, but America's unfolding national election, especially the strenuous struggle between the two Democrats, is attracting mucho attention south of the border.
Our LATimes.com colleagues over at the La Plaza Latin America blog have an interesting item on a newspaper poll down south that shows Mexicans are also about evenly split between Senora Hillary Clinton and Senor Barack Obama.
About 31% favor each of them. Senor Juan McCain does not get many votes, only 7%, despite his politically costly support for immigration reform last spring.
You can read the full item here.
--Andrew Malcolm
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Posted by Andrew Malcolm on April 7, 2008 in California , Campaigning , Democratic Politics , Foreign Policy , Polls , Presidential Campaign , Republican Politics | Permalink
Don Frederick has served as an editor helping guide coverage of every presidential election since 1984. He is a third-generation Washingtonian, so watching the political world comes naturally to him.
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000.
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