Popularity Contests

Excelsior has a fun popularity meter that combines an official's fame with his public approval to give us a numerical value of his popularity. (They should sell the formula to high schools.) Today, it takes aim at the PRD. Making a mockery of my use of the masculine possessive pronoun in the previous sentence, Amalia García finished first, with a score of 6.1. Fifty-six percent of respondents view the Zacatecas governor favorably or very favorably. El Peje, despite the benefit of 95 percent public recognition, came in tenth, or dead last. His favorable/very favorable percentage was a mere 32 percent. Marcelo Ebrard was right in the middle in fifth place, with a 47 percent favorable/very favorable rating.