Venezuelan Opposition Prepares for Non-Recognition of Chavez Victory

[joshcryer]

2. No! That's how it should be done! Are you kidding me?

You look at Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood won. Yes it sucked, but it was a totally legitimate win. Now ideally they shouldn't have been allowed to win if the west had its way. But they were able to have a superior ground game to the point that when the election was called the numbers they had on the ground were right on target.

Read this: http://technosociology.org/?p=1064

Whatever else went into the apparent results, I’d like to suggest that the Muslim Brotherhood (or Ikhwan as Egyptians refer to them) made it harder for the election to be stolen because they combined a superior ground game with active and sophisticated online presence to control the narrative and force a level of transparency. (In other words, they forced it such that if the elections were going to be stolen, it was going to be “in-your-face” stolen which is a very different method with greatly different political implications than “under-the-rug” stolen).

That's all the opposition is proposing here. The spin is just preposterous. The only way to steal the elections in Venezuela is in your face obvious stealing. Stealing so obvious to anyone that only the most chronic of liars would believe the results.