Sunday’s Race Matters Most

COLOMBIA - Report 07 Mar 2014 by Veronica Navas and Andres Escobar

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY If you’re under 34, middle class and politically unaffiliated, you probably don’t know who to vote for. You belong to a group comprising half of Colombia’s would-be voters. The other half are split between President Juan Manuel Santos and the other candidates. That’s the remarkable finding of the recent Semana-RCN poll. Yet this discovery will probably be meaningless. Democracy belongs to those who vote for their choices. The expected breakdowns of “undecided” and “blank” voters will likely mimic current poll results. So nothing fruitful will come of the electorate’s disco...

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