Record turnout for Honduras post-coup election – Conservative Porfirio Lobo wins!

porfirio-lobo-sosaLiberals love to claim that somehow Obama’s 53% win in the 2008 election over RINO John McCain was some sort of landslide. If that is truly the case then Honduras conservative candidate Porfirio Lobo most have won in a tidal wave as he got 55.9% of the vote, electoral officials said, after more than 60% of ballots were counted and Lobo was declared the winner of the Honduras Presidential election. Unless of course these numbers changes a few % points, that is even more of a wipeout considering that left wing loon Zelaya and his supporters called for an election boycott and the left wing nut supporters of Zelaya started violence. CNN reports a turnout of voters at around 60% was expected but unofficial reports claim the turnout was above 70%. Oh and remember, Obama was a major support of Zelaya too.

The Wall Street Journal has a summary:

A conservative rancher named Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo took the Honduran presidency in elections Sunday, five months after the country’s last elected president was forced out of the country at gunpoint. Now Hondurans must wait to see if the international community, which has been divided over the crisis, accepts the winner as legitimate.

The results gave Mr. Lobo 56% of the vote, well ahead of Liberal Party candidate Elvin Santos at 38%, confirming voters’ expected punishment of the Liberals — party of both the deposed president and the interim government that ousted him.

While the small Central American nation is expected to get crucial support from the U.S., it will likely continue to face opposition from regional heavyweights such as Brazil and Argentina. The U.S., in agreeing to accept the winner, is now in a delicate position — with Brazil, for example, which is housing exiled leader Manuel Zelaya in its Honduran embassy and recognizes him as president.

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November 30, 2009 · Filed Under General Politics


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