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"There is definitely an effect toward the end that we are not able to measure because the last survey is done the weekend before the election," Campos said. Jorge Buendia of the polling firm Buendia and Laredo also said it appeared that some voters who initially supported Pena Nieto changed their minds. "Sometimes we forget that people often tell you a preference without being completely convinced," Buendia said. "But it's not up to us as pollsters, or democrats, to decide that a convinced vote is superior to a doubtful vote." Supporters of Lopez Obrador, who narrowly lost the 2006 election by a half percentage point, say the polls were "propaganda" used against him and many are urging him to declare the election a fraud. "We have a situation where the numbers were very different from what the propaganda of the polls was spreading for three months," Manuel Camacho Solis, a former Mexico City mayor who was among Lopez Obrador's campaign coordinators in 2006 and now leads an informal coalition of leftist parties, told reporters Monday. "They first prescribed us a difference of 25 points, then of 20, and toward the last days of the campaign, and almost in a generous way, they were talking of 15 percentage points." Hundreds of young people gathered Monday at a monument along Mexico City's main Reforma Avenue to protest Pena Nieto's victory, which they called the result of electoral fraud. "The election results are being manipulated by the media," said Vladimir Cervantes, a 23-year-old university student. "We will resist so that they don't make the fraud official." The students said they knew of at least 500 reports of irregularities that were captured in photos and video, including the buying of votes. "What we want is for the truth to come up and to stop Pena Nieto from taking the presidency," Cervantes said.
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