Venezuelan Presidential Election 2012

[Insula Dei]

46.79%-46.06%.

That just looks sloppy.

[Insula Dei]

As this thread seems to be the revelating test of left-wing consistency and sanity to our fellow right-wing forumers, I will tell you this election is the first Chavez one in which I actually have a really hard time to know who to support. It's the first one I'm considering a Chavez defeat with something else than contempt and appall. So I guess I'm half sane and half insane...

Never stop believing, bro.

[Insula Dei]

What's the difference between swing and trend maps ?

Trend is swing relative to the national swing.

Or more explicitly put: Swing compares how a region voted now to how it voted 6 years ago.

Trend compares the swing in a region to the national average swing. (If a region swung 5% away from Chavez, while the Nation as a whole swung 10% away from him, that'd mean the region would be trending towards Chavez)