Trust Thy Leader

The results of the this year's National Government, Politics, and Society poll are in, and don't reveal too many surprises. The list of instutions that Mexicans trust the most are as follows: the family, the Church, universities, the army, media outlets, the IFE (which garnered a 6.6 in trustworthiness on a scale of 1-10, despite the 2006 debacle), the Supreme Court, the political parties, with the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate bringing up the rear. I'd guess that the longer term in the Senate accounts for its 0.1-point deficit against the Chamber of Deputies; those three extra years of listening to comments from, say, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, are bound to bump him down a bit.

Also, on the trust-o-meter of individual governors, Sonora's Eduardo Bours and Coahuila's Humberto Moreira landed in the top spots for the question, Would you trust him with your house keys? The two bottom-dwellers were, predictably, Puebla's Mario Marín and Oaxaca's Ulises Ruiz.