Oil Polls

Some fun polls in today's Excelsior break down support for Calderón's energy plan by party and by city, covering Monterrey, Guadalajara, and Mexico City. In each area, the priístas and panistas were for the reform, and the perredistas against, by roughly equal margins everywhere. People who didn't identify with any party were for the reform in Monterrey (by a margin of 57 to 25), for it in Mexico City (47-45), and against it in Guadalajara (36-55). In none of the cities, the three largest in Mexico, did more people oppose Calderón's reform than favor it. When respondents were asked about the reform's various facets one by one, in not one city did those against any of the six proposed changes outnumber those for it. I hope AMLO had a chance to take a look at all this.