Antoine is now fully vindicated.  It was said that Obrador would win, but Antoine, as I reminded you all (!) yesterday (see previous posting here), had his doubts.  And he has been proved entirely right.  Conservative Calderon now looks to have won, very narrowly.

Now this:

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico’s conservative presidential candidate Felipe Calderon declared victory on Monday in a bitterly contested election and official returns appeared to show his leftist rival could no longer catch him.

Calderon had a lead of almost 400,000 votes over Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with returns in from almost 98 percent of polling stations and a senior election official said it was unlikely to change with a recount ordered for later this week.

A Calderon victory would ensure Mexico sticks to the free-market policies of outgoing President Vicente Fox and hold steady as a U.S. ally, bucking a trend of Latin American nations who have turned to the left and away from Washington in recent years.

Somehow if Obrador were winning this thing very narrowly, I don’t think that Reuters would say in their headline that he “creeps” towards victory, do you?

I believe in specialist blogging, even though I haven’t been doing it lately.  (But stay tuned for my relaunched edublog.) And a specialist blog that ought to exist should be called something like the Global Conservative, Right Around The World, or some such.  Its purpose, quite explicitly and unashamedly, would be to find all the centre right parties around the world, and back them against the centre left and not so centre left parties, ditto.  Who are our guys?  What nice things can we say about them?  Who are their enemies?  What’s the dirt on them?  Etc.

So in this case, the message would be: hurrah!  Go Calderon!  Obrador, into the dustbin of history with you, you bad person, your mother smells of elderberries, etc.

I’m too much the loony libbo to doing this myself, far too old and far too lazy.  Also I am too much the cynic about all politicians wherever they are on the spectrum, and not that happy about the very idea of a spectrum.  Politics is politics is my attitude.  Above all, I just tend not to like Conservatives.  They are either pompous asses reeking of unearned entitlement, or creeps, I reckon.  The world has to have them, to keep all the idiot lefties under some kind of control, but I find it easier to admire Conservatives from afar.

But the world needs Global Guidos.  (Come to think of it, “Global Guido” would be a much better name for such a blog than anything with words like “Conservative” or “right” in the title.) Since at least 1848, the left has been more or less globally united.  One of the big consequences of blogging, historians may decide, may be that free marketeers (my preferred emphasis) around the world likewise got politically, rather than merely ideologically, joined up.  Let’s hope so.