AMLO's "yes, but.." to candidacy poll: Complete nonsense

AMLO seemingly agreed to a poll that would decide whether he or Marcelo Ebrard will be the left's 2012 presidential candidate, but with a major catch: The poll can not include any PRI or PAN sympathizers.

Having an open poll would of course demonstrate which candidate can move beyond the party base to actually reach into other voting groups, whether belonging to other parties or not. But AMLO doesn't want this - and heavens knows how he wants to make a poll that presorts the actual respondents.

In my opinion: This is just pure trickery, as AMLO will not accept any result where he does not come out on top-