The Lounge's first and only perpetual poll

[ChrisGreaves]

Should multiple-polling be allowed in polls?
How about being able to change your vote?

[Rudi]

What amuses me is that there are some votes recorded in: "I never vote in polls". How did those votes get there????

[HansV]

Cognitive dissonance...

[ChrisGreaves]

Cognitive dissonance...

"Dissonance with the one that bought you(r vote)?"

[ChrisGreaves]

How did those votes get there????

garbsmj?

[garbsmj]

Not me. Although I did not participate in your other poll because I found it redundant. I don't take polls that have to do with cats, either, since they are, well, cats.

[ChrisGreaves]

I don't take polls that have to do with cats, either, since they are, well, cats.

What about Herefords?

[Rudi]

How did those votes get there????

garbsmj?

[ChrisGreaves]

Should multiple-polling be allowed in polls?
How about being able to change your vote?

Let's get that " I never vote in polls" above 21% today, OK?

[Bowlie]

Should multiple-polling be allowed in polls?
How about being able to change your vote?

Let's get that " I never vote in polls" above 21% today, OK?

Is 27% more or less than 21%? Should we have a poll?

[ChrisGreaves]

Let's get that " I never vote in polls" above 21% today, OK?

Is 27% more or less than 21%?Should we have a poll?

I wouldn't touch that with the proverbial barge!

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[Bowlie]

How else would you explain:

The Canadian election results contain many surprises and some genuine shocks.

The big surprise: Harper got his majority. The polls predicted another Harper minority, and almost all the pundits agreed.

Shock #1: for the first time in Canadian history, the federal Liberal Party—the party of Pierre Trudeau—did not finish either first or second. Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff resigned the day after the vote.

Shock #2: the francophone nationalist Bloc Québécois, which had won a majority of Quebec seats in every election since 1993, was annihilated. BQ leader Gilles Duceppe resigned election night.

Shock #3: the heavily-nationalist Francophone vote in Quebec fell swooning into the arms of Jack Layton, leader of the NDP, an English Canadian party with neither history nor organization in the province. The NDP is now the Official Opposition,

Most of the victorious NDP candidates in Quebec are still stunned. Appropriate to their status as the fourth party, the NDP nominated a slate of weirdos, no-hopers and several who couldn’t be bothered to campaign. But 58 (of 75) won anyway, including the 19 year old, the 20 year old and Ruth Ellen Brosseau, the Ottawa barmaid who doesn’t speak French and who thought so little of her chances that she didn't cancel the Las Vegas vacation she’d booked in the middle of a 35-day race.

Who said Canadian politics are boring?

[ChrisGreaves]

How else would you explain: ... Who said Canadian politics are boring?

I hope we aren't straying into Politics, Sex or Religion here ... (House Rules #7)

Nicholas Russon posted an interesting doo-dad on Canadian Elections:

Alleged forged signatures on NDP nomination papers:-
Did you notice that last little bit? If you live at an address which had one or more registered voters living there in the last election, you are deemed to be a registered voter for the purposes of signing nomination papers. Is that not a low enough hurdle to avoid the need to submit forged signatures?

[Bowlie]

How else would you explain: ... Who said Canadian politics are boring?

I hope we aren't straying into Politics, Sex or Religion here ... (House Rules #7)

Nicholas Russon posted an interesting doo-dad on Canadian Elections:

Alleged forged signatures on NDP nomination papers:-
Did you notice that last little bit? If you live at an address which had one or more registered voters living there in the last election, you are deemed to be a registered voter for the purposes of signing nomination papers. Is that not a low enough hurdle to avoid the need to submit forged signatures?

Chris, don't worry about House Rule #7, these are Canadian politics after all. Rule #7 applies only to serious politics (and perhaps serious sex and serious religion)

But to clarify I was not commenting on Canadian politics - I was commenting that I thought you were fixing the poles. And I think the evidence speaks for itself!

[HansV]

I was commenting that I thought you were fixing the poles.

Let's not get into Polish politics, we might have to lock or remove this thread.

[ChrisGreaves]

... I think the evidence speaks for itself!

Why, Thank You!

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[Bowlie]

I was commenting that I thought you were fixing the poles.

Let's not get into Polish politics, we might have to lock or remove this thread.

As Chris said "I wouldn't touch that one with a barge".

[BobH]

How about Hereford politics? Or is that a bit too mooooch?

Maybe I need to be put out to pasture.

[ChrisGreaves]

Maybe I need to be put out to pasture.

Not yet, Bob.
Milk it for all it's wort! (sic!)