The IFE's Shortcomings

In July, about the electoral reform that places strict limits on what the parties can and cannot say during election season, Leo Zuckermann wrote:

The attacks between candidates are intrinsic to electoral competition. To a candidate who is behind in the polls and who doesn't move up with a positive campaign, the only chance he has to win is to criticize his adversary. Nevertheless, the parties prohibited in the Constitution the airing of negative radio and television spots. Huge error. Now the attacks will be anonymous and therefore more virulent. Under the previous system, at least we knew that the panistas were the ones who said that López Obrador was a danger for Mexico and that the perredistas claimed that Calderón had signed Fobaproa [a notorious bank bailout boondoggle]. But now, the attacks will be unsigned.

The IFE's admission that it has no plans to monitor online media outlets like Facebook, Hi5, and Youtube proves his hypothesis. With younger generations of Mexicans leaning heavily toward the internet as the medium of choice, the IFE's restrictions are going to be obsolete before too long.