Lopez Obrador Gains Ground in Presidential Polls Associated Press
go to original May 31, 2012

Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

MEXICO CITY - New polls show leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gaining ground ahead of Mexico's July 1 presidential election.

A poll by the GEA/ISA firm suggests front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto fell about one percentage point to 34.5 percent of voter preferences, while Lopez Obrador rose about two points to 21.3 percent.

Josefina Vazquez Mota of the governing National Action Party has fallen to third with 20.2 percent of preferences. The difference between Lopez Obrador and Vaquez Mota falls within the poll's three-percentage point margin of error.

Another poll published Thursday by the newspaper Reforma shows Lopez Obrador even closer at 25.5 percent, within three points of Pena Nieto at 28.5. Vaquez Mota ran well back at 18 percent in the poll, which had a margin of error of 2.9 points.

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