Polls: Banana magnate leads in Ecuador

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QUITO, Ecuador - Banana tycoon Alvaro Noboa was building momentum toward a victory over leftist economist Rafael Correa in Ecuador's Nov. 26 presidential runoff, three polls showed Monday.

According to the national surveys, the country's richest man leads Correa, a former finance minister, by a 15- to 19-point margin.

Under Ecuadorean election law, Monday was the last day polls could be published locally.

Noboa is an old-style populist, who has pledged to use his personal wealth and influence among rich foreigners to spur investment and create jobs. With a Bible under his arm and frequent references to God in his speeches, he has crisscrossed the small Andean nation handing out computers, wheel chairs, medicine and money.

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[reichstag911]

1. Meanwhile, in America,...

...a banana-chomping shit magnet nervously catches up on election results between naps (and bananas), fretting over the likelihood of the end of his unconstitutional arrogation of power and the beginning of the investigations.