DA is losing support under Maimane: poll

[MickZA]

650 people polled..

I can only imagine that there is a large margin of error on those results.

Love the outcome of an inquiry as to why the opinion polls got it wrong iro the UK elections last year - "we asked the wrong people"

What we found suggests that the main reason for the disparity between the polls and the actual election outcome is unlikely to have been failure by voters to be honest about how they planned to vote. Instead it is more likely that the problem lay in the failure of the pollsters to interview the right mix of voters in the first place.

 

[cupcake]

I find it concerning that given the current state of our country people would not vote for the official opposition.

Who cares if the DA has internal problems with a few racists or some fail to deliver. Let's get rid of the ANC first and then we go vote for those we like best.

Agree, a strong opisition is the best thing for a healthy democracy.

 

[biometrics]

I laugh at those that say a vote for a smaller party is a vote for the ANC. What absolute rubbish.

 

[Pitbull]

I laugh at those that say a vote for a smaller party is a vote for the ANC. What absolute rubbish.

Not voting is a vote for the ANC. There is a difference and only going to the ANC because they are the majority. Would be the exact same if there was another majority part.

 

[Former member 61586]

Lost my support before this guy arrived - by failing to deliver... and having various useless ward councillers in my area, and doing absolutely ****all about it it.

I'm not keen on a nanny state, and a party that bulldoze their way into doing what ever they want, we already have that.

This ^. Many (all) of my friends who live in traditionally disadvantaged coloured areas in Cape Town feel EXACTLY the same.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Agree, a strong opisition is the best thing for a healthy democracy.

A strong and diverse opposition is good for a healthy democracy. Having only 2 bad choices is not

 

[cupcake]

I will wait till after the election to see if the DA is losing or winning support. This feels like speculation.

The poll is not large enough to really count so I agree it does seem more like speculation. It's difficult to believe anything people are saying at this point considering the desperate state our polical system is in, desperate times call for desperate measures.

 

[hawker]

At the end of the day politicians are all the same, like it or not.

 

[Ninja'd]

I laugh at those that say a vote for a smaller party is a vote for the ANC. What absolute rubbish.

Wasn't that also part of of Zille's campaign ads years back?

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Love the outcome of an inquiry as to why the opinion polls got it wrong iro the UK elections last year - "we asked the wrong people"

But people lie too. Am sure there are a few FF+ supporters here. Would they admit to it when asked? The same for EFF. But they go for what best supports their best interest when they are in the voting booth

 

[cupcake]

A strong and diverse opposition is good for a healthy democracy. Having only 2 bad choices is not

Fair enough but the idea that both options are bad is a matter of opinion and not fact however it's still better than what we have now and keeps all parties accountable for there BS even if it is a simple political power struggle. A good example of this is Zim, no strong opisition has been able to gain any ground and a dictator is thriving.

 

[Bryn]

I don't vote DA because I like them, but because they can actually take power away from the ANC and don't have insane ideas about how to run this country.

 

[MickeyD]

I laugh at those that say a vote for a smaller party is a vote for the ANC. What absolute rubbish.

You folks need to go do your homework on how the proportional seats are allocated. Voting for a small party gives the majority party more proportional seats.

 

[C4Cat]

Not voting is a vote for the ANC.

Unless you would have voted for the ANC had you voted

 

[GrammatonCleric]

Consider the following when voting, especially for the ANC:



Mandela's cabinet consisted of 28 ministers and their deputies.

Thabo Mbeki cabinet consisted of 28 ministers and their deputies.

Jacob Zuma cabinet consists of 64 ministers and 64 deputy ministers.

Each minister has 8 bodyguards
Each minister has 2 mansions in Cape Town and in Pretoria.

Each deputy minister has 8 bodyguards.
Each deputy minister has 2 mansions in Cape Town and in Pretoria.

In 2009 when the Zuma government took over, auditor general reported a loss of R8 billion.

In 2010 we lost R15 billion.
In 2011 n 2012 we lost R20 billion.
In 2013 we lost R31 billion.

America has about 400 million citizens and Obama cabinet consists of only 20 people.

South Africa has 51 million citizens and is the only country in the world that has the biggest cabinet that consist of 128 people.

Our debt is R1 trillion and rising steadily.

As you vote on May 7th, think about the billions we lose every year, monies that could have created jobs, fed and housed millions, ended crime, paid for education, created a new future for all South Africans.

Think you are voting to deal with racism, think again. All race press is engineered by our government to instil division in the youth. It's a pre-election diversion tactic and this here is the truth.

How much more are we prepared to lose under Zuma and the entirely corrupt ANC that allowed this to happen?

If he retains his presidency on May 7th, the ANC has another 5 years of this robbery? As it stands any political party taking power will have two decades of corruption to deal with.

How much more are we prepared to lose?

 

[C4Cat]

You folks need to go do your homework on how the proportional seats are allocated. Voting for a small party gives the majority party more proportional seats.

Please explain

 

[biometrics]

Not voting is a vote for the ANC. There is a difference and only going to the ANC because they are the majority. Would be the exact same if there was another majority part.

That's not what I said.

I vote for smaller parties, neither the DA nor the ANC.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

You folks need to go do your homework on how the proportional seats are allocated. Voting for a small party gives the majority party more proportional seats.

Not necessarily. It gives the smaller party more seats. And provides the opportunity for that small party to grow, and provides people who don't agree with the larger parties policies a voice.

Very different from first past the post system where a large % of the votes are wasted.

 

[biometrics]

You folks need to go do your homework on how the proportional seats are allocated. Voting for a small party gives the majority party more proportional seats.

Oh please. How many votes to get a seat in parliament? And what is the % of the vote?

Even Agang got seats.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Instead of bickering about who to vote for, everyone should encourage each other to actually vote in the first place. 8 million didn't vote. The ANC could have been well below 50% if everyone actually voted...