Scioli, Macri face to face in historic debate in Argentina.

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5. Nice try - but those are online polls, not scientific ones.

And Mugricio has a small army of online trolls - paid for largely with Buenos Aires taxpayer money, I might add (as well as Paul Singer's, of course).

That said, there's no doubt Macri's media support structure have done a good job playing to people's wishful thinking: that defunding safety net programs for the poor (who many white, middle-class voters resent as "lazy blacks" - sound familiar?) won't lead to a massive jump in poverty and crime; or that his shock doctrine policies will somehow not push the country into a deep recession (while giving his friends a windfall).

If you are indeed a Democrat, you shouldn't want to have anything to do with Macri and his race-baiting or Bushonomics. Argentina's own history leaves no doubt that it would be as bad for Argentina - or any country, really - as Chavismo has ultimately been for Venezuela (for different reasons, of course).