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chiskop
Executive Member
icyrus said:
Um, no. But if you check the election results for the last couple of elections, I think you'll find that they confirm that the majority of south Africans have found a party that suits them.
Angelo said:
The election results show that a majority of voters vote for the ANC. It doesn't show anything about why they vote for the ANC. For all we know it could be because ANC goons go around threatening people if they don't vote ANC just like bob's crew does. But thats assuming... like what you were doing.
the ANC garners an emotive vote due to the past of this country - not because they are a better party. This has been covered at length before on this forum. Emotive voting is the reason why Mugabe is still in power.
chiskop
Executive Member
kingmonty said:
Just because a majority of people here believe this, doesn't make it so.
99% of all voting is emotive, look at GW Bush campaigning against gay marriage, or Spain after the train bombings, Zimbabwe elections were as crooked as they come, filled with intimidation and propoganda, what about Tony Leon campaigning for the death penalty on TV? What kind of joke is that? Like he has any power to make that happen - it's politics.
The people in these forums are the minority, we have internet access which puts us in the LSM 6 (I think) and we don't represent the majority of SA. I don't think we should presume to know why someone votes a certain way.
The people in these forums are the minority, we have internet access which puts us in the LSM 6 (I think) and we don't represent the majority of SA. I don't think we should presume to know why someone votes a certain way.
chiskop
Executive Member
icyrus said:
No. I only know the truth of why I vote for who I vote for. I am not offering any assumptions about why anybody votes the way they do. I do think that it is facile to dismiss >60% of the votes cast in most recent elections as "emotive votes".
Being a member of a Party is not the same as actually voting for them?Angelo said:
There is a difference. See Note Below.
Sorry to bring this up again, but I am curious myself.
Are you on the voters role and which party do you vote for?
To reciprocate.
I am on the voters role and I voted for Helen Zille in the last Local Election.
Note: In the last Local Election De Lille when asked by callers to Cape Talk why she supported Imperfekto for Mayor, became defensive and lashed out at the callers asking them if they were members of the ID etc.
I'm on the voters roll but whether I voted for Azapo, Afrikaaner Asksie or whatever is confidential I believe.BTTB said:Being a member of a Party is not the same as actually voting for them?
There is a difference. See Note Below.
Sorry to bring this up again, but I am curious myself.
Are you on the voters role and which party do you vote for?
To reciprocate.
I am on the voters role and I voted for Helen Zille in the last Local Election.
Note: In the last Local Election De Lille when asked by callers to Cape Talk why she supported Imperfekto for Mayor, became defensive and lashed out at the callers asking them if they were members of the ID etc.