Among the crowing, slurs and insults being flung around in Mexico’s election race, campaign ads in this country are even competing over which candidate has the greatest manhood.
From television spots to interviews with presidential hopefuls, you could be forgiven for wondering if the only thing that counts in this election race is size.
“We know why we are with Roberto. It’s because he has big ones,” says a farmer in a TV spot to promote Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, candidate Roberto Madrazo, running in third place in opinion polls.
A radio ad for ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon, ranked second in polls, says the conservative is the one who could spur job creation because “he’s got balls.”
And Madrazo himself recently took a dig at leftist front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s manliness after the leftist opted not to take part in a live election debate on Tuesday. “He didn’t have the guts, he didn’t have the manhood to be in the debate,” Madrazo told a reporter.
Reuters via Yahoo! News