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The Mexican Vote
NICOLÁS ROMERO, Mexico - Although Mexico's presidential race has been broadly cast as a fight between the rich and the poor, its outcome on Sunday will almost certainly be decided by voters like the ones who live in the neat rows of condominiums that went up here two years ago.
For the first time since 1995, when a banking crisis crushed the country's economic aspirations, inflation and interest rates are low enough to begin lifting appreciable numbers of working families into gated communities like the Cantaros III neighborhood here in Mexico State.
With one foot out of Mexico's economic quicksand and children close to graduating from college, the middle-class families here provide a microcosm of the 35 percent of Mexican voters whose loyalties cross political lines and who are avidly being courted by the two leading candidates: Felipe Calderón, a conservative technocrat who is backed by business leaders, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a leftist populist with passionate support among the poor.
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