According to Facebook, Peña Nieto is already a winner

I decided to get rid of my personal Facebook account for a variety of reasons, yet thought of checking the followers of a few likely candidates for 2012 before I bid farewell:

The figures, in terms of "Likes," were as follows:

Marcelo Ebrard: 1,377

Josefina Vázquez Mota: 2,106

AMLO: 14,106

Manlio Fabio Beltrones 20,490

Santiago Creel: No public profile

Juan Ramón de la Fuente: No public profile

And Enrique Peña Nieto......  276,760

(Calderón, by comparison: 104,817)

Wow. Even though internet is clearly not restricted to the middle and upper classes, it seems the Golden Boy has reached deeply into this segment already. An entire decade has passed since the PRI held power. Many may not have forgotten, but many new have come of Facebook-age since, and are more than ready to embrace the "new" PRI, which, judging by Peña Nieto's actual behavior in power, looks just like the old PRI.