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Exit poll: The post referendum thread. No electioneering.

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  • #362
    Reati
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,926 ✭✭✭Reati


    I don't think this poll will show a real view on the results. The no side are still out campaigning and putting signs up on the m50 as of an hour ago :) they won't be able to vote here too.

    God loves a trier I guess!


  • #363
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Arghus wrote: »
    Nail on the head mate. It was the lies - the shamefaced, utterly brazen lies - more than anything else that compelled me to Vote and Vote Yes.

    Yup, if you've got to tell lies to win your debate you're on the wrong side of that debate.


  • #364
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    revelman wrote: »
    All sorts of things can have an impact on when people vote (e.g. weather, work etc). It could be that women in general feel more motivated to vote in this referendum than in other referenda. There are more women than men who are stay-at-home parents and will have been in a position to have voted in the morning. It will be interesting to see if voting picks up again after 5pm. Do men (as a general class) feel just as motivated as women to vote in this referendum? (BTW - before I'm attacked - I'm trying to point to a fact that in the general population there are more women than men who are stay-at-home parents - I'm not making some sort of sexist point about the role of women in society!)

    I'd be very surprised if the turnout was higher than the SSM referendum. I'd say it will be roughly the same or lower.

    Apparently to date most stations are reporting a higher turnout that at the same point during the SSM referendum. I think it's significantly higher in some areas.


  • #365
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Voted yes.


  • #366
    Simi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭Simi


    dark crystal wrote: »
    Popped in during my lunch hour and voted YES.


    The nerves starting to kick in now about the result...

    Voted YES this morning before work. Good few people going in at 7.30am. Won't be able to relax until the result is clear tomorrow.


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  • #367
    micks_address
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,195 ✭✭✭micks_address


    Voting yes on way home. Will vote here after. This poll won't be a great indicator though. Most older people are likely to be swayed to vote no and they aren't on the Internet. Little worried on some articles saying turn out jumped significantly as people left morning religious services. Most of those votes likely to be no. Higher turnout of women is likely a positive sign. Fair point by leo to.. If you are drinking in a beer garden in Dublin city centre some people won't go home to vote.. Hopeful it will be a yes.


  • #368
    Rory28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rory28


    I voted.


  • #369
    Huntergonzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,160 ✭✭✭Huntergonzo


    I voted with my conscience as I hope everybody did!


  • #370
    goat2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    I think the turnout for voting in this is going to be a record high for polling stations, judging from the crowd at my station an hour ago, I have not seen so many walking the halls of the school on polling day, in the past 25 yrs


  • #371
    iora_rua
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭iora_rua


    A very definite YES from me and a neighbour ... who's not on Boards!


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  • #372
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,712 ✭✭✭storker


    farmchoice wrote: »
    i heard tubirdy mention on the radio this morning that they will be having the exit poll on the late late at 11.30pm so its possible that RTE are actually going to hold it back until then to force us all to watch the late late!!!!

    That's cruelty...making people watch the Late Late I mean.


  • #373
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Huntergonzo wrote: »
    I voted with my conscience as I hope everybody did!

    Nah, I just voted to look cool.


  • #374
    Huntergonzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,160 ✭✭✭Huntergonzo


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    Nah, I just voted to look cool.

    That's cool


  • #375
    juanjo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭juanjo


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    Nah, I just voted to look cool.

    Fecking hipsters...


  • #376
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    revelman wrote: »
    All sorts of things can have an impact on when people vote (e.g. weather, work etc). It could be that women in general feel more motivated to vote in this referendum than in other referenda. There are more women than men who are stay-at-home parents and will have been in a position to have voted in the morning. It will be interesting to see if voting picks up again after 5pm. Do men (as a general class) feel just as motivated as women to vote in this referendum? (BTW - before I'm attacked - I'm trying to point to a fact that in the general population there are more women than men who are stay-at-home parents - I'm not making some sort of sexist point about the role of women in society!)

    I'd be very surprised if the turnout was higher than the SSM referendum. I'd say it will be roughly the same or lower.

    No way, it’ll be higher. A much more polarising issue.


  • #377
    selassie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭selassie


    If you put a tick instead of an X is your vote not counted?


  • #378
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,866 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    I'm 63, male.

    Voted Yes, but after LONG consideration of available literature and listening to views of others. Was 50/50 until last week. Did NOT listen to debates on TV, did NOT read free 'advisories' coming through the letter box. As far as I was concerned, the vitriol on display from both sides was awful. Didn't need that to help me decide. Mainly read the views of qualified medical people - funny how two doctors can have opposing views isn't it??


    My greatest fear was that abortion would become the new contraception.Then I asked myself, "what if we're talking about my daughter, or my sisters, or their daughters? Are they going to start having abortions left right and centre?" Of course, the answer is no. So, in the end , that's what swung it for me.


  • #379
    Vita nova
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 768 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Yes.

    To all those people on both sides that gave up their free time and put themselves under mental and physical stress to campaign; a big well done from me.


  • #380
    goat2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    selassie wrote: »
    If you put a tick instead of an X is your vote not counted?

    It did say to put X in the preferred box, but, I do not know if a tick is counted, as it did specify an X


  • #381
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    micks_address wrote: »
    Voting yes on way home. Will vote here after. This poll won't be a great indicator though. Most older people are likely to be swayed to vote no and they aren't on the Internet. Little worried on some articles saying turn out jumped significantly as people left morning religious services. Most of those votes likely to be no. Higher turnout of women is likely a positive sign. Fair point by leo to.. If you are drinking in a beer garden in Dublin city centre some people won't go home to vote.. Hopeful it will be a yes.

    The amount of people who go to morning religious services I doubt would be a worrying figure for yes. The turnout in urban areas particularly Dublin will decide this and as of now it looks high. If no get 45% i think it will be doing well.


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  • #382
    revelman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭revelman


    mloc123 wrote: »
    I think in the final 2 weeks of the campaign the NO campaign did more work pushing undecided people to a yes vote than anyone else could.

    I'd agree with that assessment. A lot of very extreme people on that side. But there are a lot of people who are voting no because, while they don't agree with the 8th amendment, they think that the proposed legislation is going too far. If there had been No campaigners making this point more effectively, then it might have been a far closer result than I think it is going to be.

    A lot of people voting no or thinking about voting no found it difficult to identify with those supposedly representing their views on the national media.

    (PS - I know in theory you are only voting on the retention or repeal of the 8th amendment. But if there is an overwhelming Yes vote, then politicians will see that as an affirmation to implement the legislative proposals in full.)


  • #383
    goulders
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭goulders


    Below is a letter sent to two young Ladies, (16 & 17 yr old)

    I have a bit of a question for both of you. No doubt you have heard about the upcoming referendum to repeal the 8th amendment. Myself and Gran have talked a lot about this and which way we might vote, we don't know yet.

    We are thinking that no matter which way we vote neither of us will ever have to make a decision about a real life situation. We are thinking that it may be something you both may have to face someday. (hope not but who knows).

    16 & 17 yr old of today may be affected, the problem is ye don't have a vote.
    I am asking you to have a serious think about the referendum and if you had a vote which way would you vote ? Let us know because we want to give you our votes, you tell us and we will vote that way. Maybe even in a class discussion ask other classmates to ask their grandparents for their votes.

    Ye don't have a vote but ya should have a voice.

    What do you think of the idea.

    Nana & Granda


    They both have had a vote and I feel good about that


  • #384
    Dibble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭Dibble


    I voted Yes

    #RepealThe8th


  • #385
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    B0jangles wrote: »
    Four YES votes from my family this morning!

    The amount of double-checking I did to make sure I was X-ing the right box was just ridiculous though :D

    Me too! :D


  • #386
    revelman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭revelman


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    No way, it’ll be higher. A much more polarising issue.

    If something is more polarising, it can have the opposite effect: some people will feel like staying at home. I'm not saying your wrong but it will be interesting to see if men vote in the same numbers as women. If the voting holds up after 5pm this evening, then I think we are in for a higher turnout than SSM.

    (By the way, even though I'm old, I'm not implying that men are at work and women are at home. I'm simply relaying the fact that statistically-speaking there are more stay-at-home parents who are women who may have already voted).


  • #387
    bappelbe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭bappelbe


    selassie wrote: »
    If you put a tick instead of an X is your vote not counted?

    My understanding is that if it is clear which way you intended to vote then it will be counted.
    (I think a tick in one box is clear)


  • #388
    bladespin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,430 ✭✭✭bladespin


    Billy86 wrote: »
    Well as it turns out...

    https://twitter.com/LoveBothDrog/status/999978070999273474

    I disbelieve them :P
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  • #389
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    goulders wrote: »
    Below is a letter sent to two young Ladies, (16 & 17 yr old)

    I have a bit of a question for both of you. No doubt you have heard about the upcoming referendum to repeal the 8th amendment. Myself and Gran have talked a lot about this and which way we might vote, we don't know yet.

    We are thinking that no matter which way we vote neither of us will ever have to make a decision about a real life situation. We are thinking that it may be something you both may have to face someday. (hope not but who knows).

    16 & 17 yr old of today may be affected, the problem is ye don't have a vote.
    I am asking you to have a serious think about the referendum and if you had a vote which way would you vote ? Let us know because we want to give you our votes, you tell us and we will vote that way. Maybe even in a class discussion ask other classmates to ask their grandparents for their votes.

    Ye don't have a vote but ya should have a voice.

    What do you think of the idea.

    Nana & Granda


    They both have had a vote and I feel good about that

    My God, the smell of bullshít off that is unbelievable. That's worst than one of those 'I was talking to a parishoner...' stories that priests always trot out during their homilies.


  • #390
    kerplun k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,521 ✭✭✭kerplun k


    Quick question, and has probably already been answered earlier in this thread, but I’m just back from voting, but I forgot to take a picture and tweet about it. Does anyone know if my vote still counts?


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  • #391
    bladespin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,430 ✭✭✭bladespin


    kerplun k wrote: »
    Quick question, and has probably already been answered earlier in this thread, but I’m just back from voting, but I forgot to take a picture and tweet about it. Does anyone know if my vote still counts?

    Instagram of FB????
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