Thursday, January 31, 2008

Correction on Cuba

When writing about the recent election in Cuba, I argued that given abstentions and invalid votes, Fidel could not have received more than 95.26% of the vote. That logic, however, is wrong because the votes for candidates are calculated per district, not nationally. In his district, Fidel won 98.2% and Raúl received 99.3% (h/t The Latin Americanist). Gotta love Cuban elections.

2 comments:

Paul 9:13 AM  

You'd think just for general credibility, and to give the useful idiots some talking points, the Cuban communists would makeup lower numbers. Say, 70 percentile range, or so.

Paul 9:20 AM  

Oh, OT but did you see Hugo's Facebook page?

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