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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is usually pretty down on the United States, but today he took the time to put himself in the shoes of the country’s citizens: “If I were American, I’d vote for Obama,” he said in a TV interview. Chavez himself is up for re-election this year, and he ventured that if Obama were Venezuelan, “I think … he’d vote for Chavez.” On one hand, Chavez’s endorsement of Obama seems a little undermining, as it’s pretty much a ready-made Republican attack ad. On the other hand, he expressed a desire for “a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States,” so maybe he just reads the polls.
