After Hours Exit Poll

Grayson

artanevilla wrote: »

It was Ronnie O'Brien not Roy Keane.

Thank you!

Jim Bob Scratcher

CruelCoin wrote: »

"One of the lowest turnouts was in Jobstown, Dublin where just 9.1 per cent of voters had turned out by 9pm."

Call me whatever you like, but i am not ****ing surprised. "Fook dem goovment"

They probably couldn't get time off work to vote :pac:

GoneHome

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I'm talking in general terms obviously. You may well be well read, cultured, have both a native intelligence and a taught intellect.

Jesus Christ I've never heard the likes of this, just because of where I live I've less of an intellect because of the statistics of how my constituncy votes

Silentcorner

Silentcorner wrote: »

You can better your last dollar that that is exactly what will happen.

Irish "urbanites" are much more insular than they like to think...Irish media typify this mentality, they all ignored the surge in support for Casey for the last vital week of the campaign...a classic insular/rural type reaction, brush it under the carpet! Irish media have a long standing knack for brushing a lot of s##t under the carpet...f##kin insular troglodytes!

There are parts of Rural Ireland that are way more progressive than some our urban elites!

an awful lot of yr irish "urbanites" all moved in to whatever "urban" area you might refer to from rural galway, mayo, roscommon, limerick, wherever for work.

and if not them, their parents and grandparents did.

and thats discounting the working class dubs, corkonians, galwegians, a decent bunch but not exactly yr "urbanite" template.

Faugheen

Faugheen wrote: »

I love the way people are claiming some sort of moral victory for Casey when:

1. If the numbers are accurate, MDH will have the biggest vote in Presidential election history.

2. 80% voted against Casey.

and the most vociferous of them would just be exactly the same with any of the other candidates in second!

Ursus Horribilis

Faugheen wrote: »

I love the way people are claiming some sort of moral victory for Casey when:

1. If the numbers are accurate, MDH will have the biggest vote in Presidential election history.

2. 80% voted against Casey.

Considering Casey was languishing at 1-2% before he made those comments, the swing in his favour is significant.

LeinsterDub

Klonker wrote: »

This isn't about Peter Casey. It's not even about the travellers. It's about someone actually representing what a lot of working people if this country feel. It's about someone telling us how they really feel on sensitive topics and not giving us pc nonsense. This vote shows where we stand There are votes out there for you if you actually grow a pair of balls and say it how it actually is, what you actually believe in personally but are too afraid to say as it's not pc.

Hopefully this is just the start.

No it's a rich person telling the middle class that in fact their issue isn't the rich creaming it off it is in fact the poor scraping by

Jackman25

Faugheen wrote: »

I love the way people are claiming some sort of moral victory for Casey when:

1. If the numbers are accurate, MDH will have the biggest vote in Presidential election history.

2. 80% voted against Casey.

Its the biggest story of the election. Its a great result for Casey and those who voted for him.
Even King Liberal Progressive acknowledges it

https://twitter.com/cooper_m/status/1055928861756657670

and then of course he muses on how they might have to think about blocking the likes of his message in future

https://twitter.com/cooper_m/status/1055932867711254528

sonic85

Nice little hint at censorship there from Matt. And then people wonder why a good chunk of the electorate don't trust the media and what they're feeding us every day. :rolleyes:

yes but

im one of the status quo sheep and i also think matt cooper is an awful, clumsy, agenda driving presenter/moderator

its just that his agenda is to find balance regardless of any actual merits of the topic, and that he continuously has terrible ppl to speak on either/all sides of the topic

his being a stinkingly poor judge of a good debate doesnt rly prove much i dont think

omega man

Shocked at coopers comment that Casey is the big story. It must be killing him.

However I’m extremely alarmed by his follow up. Is that the mentality in the media? Shape the public opinion not simply report it?

q85dw7osi4lebg

Jackman25 wrote: »

Its the biggest story of the election. Its a great result for Casey and those who voted for him.
Even King Liberal Progressive acknowledges it

https://twitter.com/cooper_m/status/1055928861756657670

and then of course he muses on how they might have to think about blocking the likes of his message in future

https://twitter.com/cooper_m/status/1055932867711254528

What a slime ball

suicide_circus

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

Considering Casey was languishing at 1-2% before he made those comments, the swing in his favour is significant.

arrah joseph goebbels and eh deplorable wrongthinkers

PauloMN

omega man wrote: »

Shocked at coopers comment that Casey is the big story. It must be killing him.

However I’m extremely alarmed by his follow up. Is that the mentality in the media? Shape the public opinion not simply report it?

Yep, as if his message resonating with people simply must not be allowed to happen. Astonishing, like a "computer says no" attitude to people actually having a different opinion to him.

Richard Hillman

When the next election pops up they will be hounding every local councilor not to vote for him. The likes of FG & FF Will pull rank and tell the councillors how to vote.

Saying that though, the landscape will be very different in 7 years time. The media are losing their power and the politics of virtue signalling are dieing a death

Ursus Horribilis

I suppose finding out why so many people have an issue with travellers and professional social welfare recipients is too much like hard work. Not to mention making oneself unpopular amongst one's journalist buddies.

Grayson

Richard Hillman wrote: »

When the next election pops up they will be hounding every local councilor not to vote for him. The likes of FG & FF Will pull rank and tell the councillors how to vote.

Saying that though, the landscape will be very different in 7 years time. The media are losing their power and the politics of virtue signalling are dieing a death

I'm in the Us right now are even here there's very few people who talk tike that. can you please stop using all that US centric lingo.

Grayson

Grayson wrote: »

I'm in the Us right now are even here there's very few people who talk tike that. can you please stop using all that US centric lingo.

or they can do what they like?

Didn’t nixonbot post a message earlier warning people to stop telling users how to post? :pac:

Idbatterim

At least this will be his last term. People voting for him because he looks like a cute little hobbit that wouldn’t hurt a fly. Pathetic !

JupiterKid

I’d wager that quite a few posters who voted for Casey in this poll actually opted to give Michael D their number 1 in the ballot box today.

Looks like Casey will come a respectable 2nd in any case...

Silentcorner

PauloMN wrote: »

Yep, as if his message resonating with people simply must not be allowed to happen. Astonishing, like a "computer says no" attitude to people actually having a different opinion to him.

Where was the media establishment when Dublin City was inflicted with a rotten corrupt planning department who worked in league with rogue Government ministers and local politicians?

Irish media have been in the gutter for decades now!

Silentcorner

Idbatterim wrote: »

At least this will be his last term. People voting for him because he looks like a cute little hobbit that wouldn’t hurt a fly. Pathetic !

He'll do a third term...or his...ahem...wife Sabina will go the next time...

He didn't become a millionaire socialist who has secured a highly lucrative 7 year extension to his already 50 year legacy by being his true self you know!

Grayson

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

I suppose finding out why so many people have an issue with travellers and professional social welfare recipients is too much like hard work. Not to mention making oneself unpopular amongst one's journalist buddies.

Populist politicians always appeal to a persons lesser nature. It's all about picking a group of people and blaming them.
See those people, they're the reason you're unhappy. See those jews/muslims/immigrants/unemployed/travellers/whatever, They're bad people. They're the problem.

I doubt many people here could name Casey's economic platform. Or any of the candidates. I doubt they could name his foreign policy platform either. In fact, I don't think they could name any of his policies except he dislikes travellers as a whole.

So people see him and see that he dislikes travellers and think "I dislike them too". That's my guy. It's a single voting issue and it's one of the dumbest issues. Even on that issue it's a dumb position. It's not like the guy actually offered any solutions.

ChunkyLover54

Voted MDH. Out of all the candidates, he is the most qualified for the job in question.

mikhail

Grayson wrote: »

I doubt many people here could name Casey's economic platform. Or any of the candidates. I doubt they could name his foreign policy platform either. In fact, I don't think they could name any of his policies except he dislikes travellers as a whole.

Voting for a powerless figurehead based on his economic policy might be the dumbest thing I've seen suggest in this thread. And that's a competitive field.

no.8

Yawwwwwn. Some/many of whom have brand new cars, free houses and a law upon themselves..... Yes 'the poor'

Klonker

LeinsterDub wrote:

No it's a rich person telling the middle class that in fact their issue isn't the rich creaming it off it is in fact the poor scraping by

Casey is a self made man. That is to be admired, not a stick to beat him with.

Our welfare system is a huge burden on this country and it's something to has to be acknowledged, along with looking at the reasons why this is so. Sticking our heads in the sand and ignoring it is not going to help.

Grayson

Johan Thundering TonsilMGS wrote: »

or they can do what they like?

Didn’t nixonbot post a message earlier warning people to stop telling users how to post? :pac:

Possibly. It's a long thread. I am however seriously fed up with all this virtue signalling garbage, snowflake too. I love arguing but when posts contain all these new US buzzwords, I feel they lack substance.

Virtue signalling is an empty phrase. In using it the poster themselves are essentially virtue signalling a lot of the time. They're virtue signalling that they're not "virtue signallers". It's almost a recursive phrase.

Anyways, I'm not telling anyone how to talk, I'm asking them to drop those phrases. And since someone already asked people not to do that, i won't do it again.

PauloMN

Grayson wrote: »

Populist politicians always appeal to a persons lesser nature. It's all about picking a group of people and blaming them.
See those people, they're the reason you're unhappy. See those jews/muslims/immigrants/unemployed/travellers/whatever, They're bad people. They're the problem.

I doubt many people here could name Casey's economic platform. Or any of the candidates. I doubt they could name his foreign policy platform either. In fact, I don't think they could name any of his policies except he dislikes travellers as a whole.

So people see him and see that he dislikes travellers and think "I dislike them too". That's my guy. It's a single voting issue and it's one of the dumbest issues. Even on that issue it's a dumb position. It's not like the guy actually offered any solutions.

Bring it down to "disliking" people/races - looks like Leo got in your head.

Never heard Casey saying he "disliked" travellers, nothing of the sort. But don't let facts get in the way of your argument.

People who voted for Casey were making a statement about the system here. Attempting to turn it into some sort of racist agenda weakens your argument.

Grayson

mikhail wrote: »

Voting for a powerless figurehead based on his economic policy might be the dumbest thing I've seen suggest in this thread. And that's a competitive field.

Precisely. And I think voting for them based on their view of travellers is even dumber.

Really the only qualifications we should be looking for is how they talk and act. They will be a representative for Ireland around the world. Their opinion on travellers shouldn't matter a bit as to how they do the job.

I will say that although Casey's opinions don't matter, voicing them and how he voices them does matter.