I take polls with a grain of salt. All polls. Even polls by Latinobarometro. Even polls by Frank Luntz. Even polls by John Zogby. And those are the ones I most respect.
Nevertheless, they are indicative of something. And Caracas-based Datanalisis has a new one out that shows President Chávez's popularity down to 52.8 percent from 61 percent in February just after the enmienda.
The reasons for this slide: 27 percent inflation, a stagnant economy, faulty public services, violent crime and a government seen as incapable of doing much about it.
This makes sense to me. But disenchantment and action (or reaction) are two very different things. Similarly, voting against one thing and voting for another are also two very different things.
Until the opposition or the third-way student movement comes up with a viable, coherent, unified platform, disapproval will be nothing more than exactly that.
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