Mexico's Fiery Populist May Need to Tone It Down to Win in 2018
- Lopez Obrador is making his third straight run for top office
- ‘Extremely confrontational’ style limits his appeal: analyst
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For Mexican presidential front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Sunday’s election must have been bittersweet.
The movement he founded just three years ago came close to unseating the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party in its heartland: President Enrique Pena Nieto’s home state of Mexico.