More than four months after an electionthathe officially lost, leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador says he won, and yesterday he declared himself the legitimate president of Mexico.
Even a member of the Christian Democrats' national executive privately admitted in Bremen thathe believed the election would be lost, Mr Kohl's rhetoric notwithstanding.
But he also says that one of the key reasons why the Tories lost the 1997 election was that many voters took the Conservatives' belief in the free market to mean that they were willing to destroy institutions and traditions which the electorate held dear.
When Caraway did well enough in the primary election to earn a spot in a runoff (which helost), I wrote a column lamenting that the candidate found a market for his fear mongering and noting that the same was true for George Wallace.