and younger people who have not experienced fascists first hand simply get bored by the progressives who follow the deposed fascists?

If everyone knew the aftermath of fascist victories, they could NEVER get elected. NEVER. Common morality and sensibility would not allow it, but awareness of fascism has to be there in the first place.

If that's the problem, education is going to need to be better and better, and fascist control of public perception is going to have to be shaken off.

Hope there are enough informed people left in Uruguay to keep Martínez in the forefront through the election.

Thanks for the information.

Voters, as you know, tend to get tired of the same party in government after a decade or so - even if the tenure was relatively mistake and scandal-free, and even if things are going well.

Human nature, I suppose.

After 15 years - positive as they may have been - convincing voters to give the Broad Front another 5 is going to be a tough sell for Martínez.

Could still happen though.

And his best selling point may not be in Uruguay itself but in neighboring Argentina: Martínez has been effectively tying Lacalle to the failed Macri administration, and this point (which is only a slight exaggeration) may just push him over the top.

Evo Morales in Bolivia used the same tactic against Carlos Mesa to great effect (a little unfairly, since Mesa's on the center-left).

His point was that Mesa, while more akin to Morales himself in policy than Macri, could easily be controlled by right-wing interests (big business, the U.S. Embassy, etc.). And it worked.

There's been some question as to whether his win was legitimate (it was just 0.6% over the requisite 10% threshold to avoid a runoff). The OAS should, of course, send their auditors to Bolivia - as Morales asked them to do - or acknowledge the results.

They could send some to Argentina while they're at it.

Fernández, as you know, won tonight - but there's still the manual count, which may yield a considerably wider margin of victory than the preliminary results (which are all we've seen thus far).

The preliminary results are nothing more than a summary of all 100,000 precinct table summaries. They can easily be manipulated (as happened in the 2017 mid-terms).

The manual count of all ballots, thankfully, cannot.

The day Macri failed in his bid to switch to all-electronic voting (late 2016 sometime), is the day I knew he would not be "re-elected."

Certainly not with those Bush-style policies of his.

Thanks as always for your time, trouble, and thoughts, Judi. Have a nice night, and a great week ahead.