Yes, I can see your drift. Giordano advances two theories about the number of "no response" answers - one is fear of the authorities, and the other is political malaise. But I think the difference you refer to may reflect an opinion that Michelleti should go, and be replaced by someone other than Zelaya. I'm just guessing - but I think it would be more questionable if the two numbers were perfectly reciprocal.

What I thought interesting about this poll is the comments made by our Republicans who went down there on "fact finding" missions. The returned and said they had discovered that hardly any Hondurans supported Zelaya. I think one said - it might have been DeMint, that 90% of Hondurans supported Michelleti's government.

My understanding is that the election will be monitored anyway, according to the plan. That's not the issue: OAS and others have stated that conditions don't exist "now" for a legitmate election. I take that to mean the conduct of the political campaigns themselves. And that reading was made even before Michelleti issued his draconian decree last week, during which all the media establishments (newspapers excepted) that are liberal and likely to give voice to the minority political parties have been silenced. What's left are the radio and TV channels owned by the backers of the Liberal and National Party.

Monday Michelleti said he would lift the decreel, and it has not been lifted yet. The claim is that the printing press which publishes the Honduran version of the "Congressional Record" is broken. So the repression continues - quite illegally I might add because the decree itself was never ratified by congress, which is required by the constitution. They won't return the confiscated broadcast equipment to Radio Globo or Channel 36 - telling both companies they have to sue in court to get their property back. In a separate action, they pulled Radio Globo's broadcast license. And they are still bashing in the heads of citizens participating in political rallies they don't like.