Totally off-topic poll

[Tris]

He did. Cast a ballot, but only vote for things you actually support, or against things you don't. If you don't like any of the choices, don't vote for any of them, but do cast the ballot.

That is not a more effective method of showing disapproval. That either increases a smaller parties share of the vote (whose successes are often reported in terms of single issue politics, and who I don't believe are more able to run the country) or increases spoilt ballots, which do not make Primetime news, and come across as people too dumb to fill in a ballot paper properly.

It also reduces the impact of "X% of people do not vote" headlines, which are the loudest message that people find politics uninspiring.

If another issue becomes more important to me, I will vote accordingly, but I still see this as the most effective way to register what I think.

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Cainehill:

Also - it isn't the internet community, or the dominions 2 community. I don't drive, so I ride the buses - an awful lot of non-internet type people are pretty unhappy with Bush. Ditto the military (I'm former military, and up until 2 months ago had been working with the military for the 14 years since I became a civilian).

Also, despite the request that non-US citizens should not take part in the poll, there's no way to keep them from it, and not being able to see the results unless you do vote may be incentive to "cheat". And, around here, I'm not sure I personally know ONE person who, given the choice, would vote Bush over Kerry (though my own personal sample would probably appear VERY biased indeed).