Why Chavez won?

He won because he learn to connect with a part of the population that is struggling.

He won because of the lack of opposition leadership.

He won because 54% of Venezuelans approved his views for a socialist republic.

He won because he provide hope and real social programs to poor voters.

He won because he is smarter that his opposition.

He won because for the first time in our recent democratic history a president ask the people for big changes on the way the country is run.

Confusion or ignorance

Whoever votes for a US president with the hope he or she can do something about abortion or gay right is just confused, blind or uninformed. The fact is the president of the United States can only voice his/her opinion on those issues but is up to the local governments and the Supreme Court to decide.

If you (as a voter) support or reject abortion don’t put your hopes on the president, instead get involved and informed about the position of your local officials (mayor, governor, congress and senate representative).

It was shown on the last Presidential proposal about immigration (2007) by President George Bush that the Senate and/or Congress have the power to decide, change, postpone or simply trash any presidential initiative to change such law and guess what, the laws for abortion or gay rights are exactly the same, not in the hands of the president. So don’t fool yourself supporting or rejecting a candidate just because of his/her position on abortion or gay rights.

Benefits of Campaining?

A long time ago a Venezuelan politician named Eduardo Fernandez proposed an outrageous tactic for campaigning candidates. His proposal was very simple, instead of spending money in TV, radio, newspaper or any other media, attacking the opponent, he proposed to use that money to repair an school or build a park or improve a childcare facility or donate equipment for a local hospital, then in the middle of the celebration the politician could use the quorum for his political speech.

This proposal was (of course) dismissed immediately by his opponents and the media didn’t pay to much attention to the fact (obviously).

It doesn’t matter if the politician was good or average or even if his speech was accurate, appropriate or relevant, at the end of the day somebody important for society (YOU) was benefited. Which benefits do you take from the millions of dollars that politicians spend campaigning?. The only one that benefits from that is the ones that already have everything (NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, CNN, Newspapers, radio stations, etc).

Is that what you want?