Coming from behind

摘要

"Nothing in politics is impossible," Felipe Calderon is fond of stating. As the candidate of President Vicente Fox's conservative National Action Party (pan) in a presidential election on July 2nd, Mr Calderon is doing his best to live up to his saying. He came from behind to win the pan's primary in October, defeating Santiago Creel, Mr Fox's interior minister and presumptive nominee. Last month he overturned a two-year lead in the opinion polls for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the candidate of the leftish Party of the Democratic Revolution (see chart).