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The AH Euro Election thread

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  • 18-05-2014 11:09am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭


    With only five days to go, let's try for our own poll here. Who will be getting your first preference next Friday?

    I'll be voting for Ming (an Independent). I was let down with the whole penalty points thing but he seems like a smart guy, and asks the right kind of questions.

    Will the Shinners be the big winners? Will Fianna Fail make up for their loss of the Dail? Will Labour find a saviour?

    Which group gets your first preference? 381 votes

    Fianna Fail
    0% 0 votes
    Fine Gael
    5% 21 votes
    Sinn Fein
    20% 78 votes
    Independent
    28% 109 votes
    Labour
    34% 132 votes
    Green
    3% 13 votes
    Socialist Party
    7% 28 votes
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  • Subscribers Posts: 41,592 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Why don't you create a poll of the candidates?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Ok ok, I did. Calm down :P


  • Subscribers Posts: 41,592 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    c_man wrote: »
    Ok ok, I did. Calm down :P

    Apologies, when i posted there was no poll.. by i think candidates would be better


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭bop1977


    Where's the "none of the above" option?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,383 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    bop1977 wrote: »
    Where's the "none of the above" option?

    I'm voting for you , bop , for asking the questions that need to be asked.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    bop1977 wrote: »
    Where's the "none of the above" option?

    Fair point, forgot about that.


    Feel free to spoil your post.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Ming !


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,433 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    c_man wrote: »
    Fair point, forgot about that.


    Feel free to spoil your post.

    No water charges.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Will be out of the country so not voting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Matt Carthy of Sinn Féin will be getting my number one.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    i am looking forward to an orderly election on Friday, which will eliminate the need for a violent blood bath.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭Satriale


    i am looking forward to an orderly election on Friday, which will eliminate the need for a violent blood bath.


    spoilsport....


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭pajor


    Pretty good test, no surprises for me though. :pac:

    http://www.electio2014.eu/matchyourvote/votingrecords


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,071 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Marian Harkin was gonna get my No.1 vote but found out she one of the many canditates who support getting rid of recent abortion legislation

    So now only left with Mark Deary the Greens.. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I'll be voting for an Independent who has proven themselves in the community over the years. I'm guessing that there'll be a very low turnout, except for the die hards who've always voted for (insert party here) regardless and always will. There's not a chance I'll even consider giving my vote to one of the main party candidates.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    South Constituency here.

    I haven't looked at all the independents running yet but if none of them appeal to me then I'll be voting for Phil Prendergast of Labour, with the Green candidate getting my second preference. Essentially they're the lesser of the evils on choice.

    I won't vote for the Sinn Féin candidate in Europe as I don't really agree with the party's euroscepticism.

    I won't vote Direct Democracy Ireland because they're batshít insane.

    And I refuse to vote for anybody from Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael in Europe because their MEPs all voted in favour of a conservative-backed motion that blocked the backing of an important report on women's reproductive rights and LGBT rights. :mad: (The voter breakdown list says Seán Kelly voted against the motion but after googling I found out that it was mistaken and he actually voted for it - a shame, because I had been considering voting for him before finding this out).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Sinn fein. Theres a poster on my road for that prick Brian McDonagh I see every time I go to work, infuriating.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Im not sure who ill vote for but I know who it wont be. Brian Hayes.

    Reprehensible is the word that comes to mind.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Eamonn Ryan (Green) in Dublin constituency.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭jonnny68


    People before profit and Independent.

    Brid Smith and David Gaughran and Ciaran Perry.

    SF and PBP and Independents will be the big winners.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Never seen an election with so few I want to vote for. I'm probably going to have to put Ming in the top three. Jesus.

    Think I'll have to give Lorraine Higgins my number one. Double Jesus. :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,822 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    jonnny68 wrote: »
    People before profit and Independent.

    Brid Smith and David Gaughran and Ciaran Perry.

    SF and PBP and Independents will be the big winners.

    And what's that going to achieve?


  • Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My boss was talking about a game that used to be played in elections - give your preferences in order as you thought they were going to eliminated - so that your vote was transferred in each round.

    I haven't decided yet how I will vote.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Matt Carthy(SF) and Mark Dearey(Green) will be getting my vote. Might stick in Marian Harkin or the blind cannabis campaigner in at number three just for the sake of a non-FG/FF/Lab transfer.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Green Party 10% and the mad murdering shinner bombers are topping the polls with 28%

    Irish people deserve everything they get if they vote anything like this poll indicates!

    Who in their right mind would vote for the party that stood by and watched and cheered on as Fianna Failed destroyed the country?

    Worse than that who would trust a pack of murderers liars and convicted terrorists? Sinn Feins only policy is a 32 county republic and they will stop at nothing to achieve that goal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    Who in their right mind would vote for the party that stood by and watched and cheered on as Fianna Failed destroyed the country?

    Yeah I wouldn't vote for Fine Gael either.


  • Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭Skeleton XIII


    Luke Flanagan all the way. **** the rest.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Considering Sinn Fein after that conveniently timed Gerry farce that played out up north.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,427 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    The war between Independent Newspapers and Sinn Fein in the run up to this election is interesting. I have never voted for SF but find it nauseating to see a tax exile billionaire who made his fortune through political corruption in Ireland try desperately to influence the outcome of elections in this country.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    I'm between Ming for the turf or Matt Carthy because he's a ride.


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