time for ballot stuffing, Evita?
Cristina Kirchner's chosen successor Daniel Scioli has failed to win outright in Argentina's presidential election, being forced into a run-off by businessman Mauricio Macri and sparking a crisis for "Kirchneristas".
With 60 per cent of the votes counted, Mr Scioli, the front runner for the whole campaign, had won 34.7 per cent of support. Mr Macri had triumphed with 36.2 per cent, sparking gasps of shock from the watching media and dancing among Mr Macri's supporters.
'Today we made the impossible possible. We are making history'
Maria Eugenia Vidal
With almost 80 per cent counted Mr Scioli looked likely to edge to a slim victory, which would mark a deep disappointment for his team who expected to win comfortably. Whoever now wins the second round will become the first president elected through a run-off in Argentine history.
The only previous run-off, in 2003, was not completed as incumbent Carlos Menem dropped out, handing the presidency to Nestor Kirchner.
The elections, which will end 12 years of rule by Nestor and Cristina Kirchner, will go into a second round on November 22 - sparking wild celebrations among Mr Macri's supporters.
"Who said we couldn't do it? #SecondRound" tweeted Laurita Alonso, one of Mrs Kirchner's fiercest critics.
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The program, called ColoradoCare, comes with a steep price tag: $25 billion, which would be raised with a 10 percent payroll tax increase. At the same time, the plan would provide all residents with Medicare-style health care coverage and allow the state to dump Obamacare.
Hit businesses with more taxes while jacking up the state budget with a program that will cost more than anyone planned. Sounds like a good way to turn into Detroit.
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It won't work, but taxpayers will be on the hook for politicans' mistakes. Increasingly, it can be blamed on the legal dope.
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Obamacare was always intended to fail IMHO, leading to a national single-payer plan
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Sounds like they finally have enough transplanted Californians in their state...
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...picked that up when they tried the usual gun control game. Noted the sheriffs outside the usual urban bubbles said they weren't going to enforce it.
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Colorado has gone off the rails all by itself. You can't blame California. Behold, marijuana is still illegal in California and single payer has yet to be enacted here. I'd wager that the majority of people who have moved to Colorado from California did so thinking they could escape California's taxes and nuttiness. Imagine their surprise when they find the residents of Denver and Boulder are even whackier than San Francisco and Berkeley.
Face it, people, the whole frickin' country is going down the tubes. California and Colorado might be a little bit ahead of the rest of you but Baraq is importing third world types as fast as he can to change the demographics of this country to be more inclined to the communism that he wants to implement. All of this is coming to a state near you and you can't blame California.
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Ohio's plan back in 2008 was $50 billion, and that number was just the sticker price. You can increase that by an order of magnitude for the operations costs.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
