Mexico elections a referendum on Calderon

By Arthur Brice
CNN

(CNN) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon will wake up a lame duck Monday. How lame will depend largely on nationwide midterm elections Sunday.

On the ballot will be 500 federal legislators, six governors and mayors and local legislators in 11 states. Although Calderon still has three years left in his six-year term and is not on Sunday's ballot, many analysts see the election as a referendum on his performance and his party's nine-year reign on the presidency.

By most accounts, Calderon's party will fare well.