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Exit poll: The post referendum thread. No electioneering.

Ozymandius2011

This is for people who have already voted in the referendum. How did you vote? I voted yes.

Mod: This thread is little more than a survey about how you voted. Please don't the ins and outs of abortion.

Mod: This is not a reiteration of the previous 8th threads. If you were threadbanned from those, you are not threadbanned here.

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fritzelly

Water John wrote: »

It will be an interesting analysis as, the vote was beginning to narrow as the campaign went on. When did this process go into reverse? Was there a seminal moment? Did it just happen as people began to focus and crystalize their views?

I honestly believe it came down to heading to the booth and people made up their minds there was only one right decision to make.

The Hound Gone Wild

doylefe wrote: »

When a 12 week old human is being executed on a whim all the Yes voters will have blood on thier hands.

Sad day for this country.

Never again will a woman sit in Dublin airport with an appointment in a clinic in who-knows-where, alone and afraid and with no medical advice behind her.

Never again will a 17 year old girl order mystery pills from the internet in attempt to save herself an early pregnancy.

Never again will we turn our backs on fellow citizens in crisis.

Generations before us had their opportunity to run this country as they saw fit. Backs were turned as young boys were beaten and raped, whispers about fallen women and babies in septic tanks. That Ireland is dead and buried. Never again.

MayoSalmon

Teyla Emmagan wrote:

This country is going somewhere.

You'd swear we lived in Uganda the way people go on sometimes

Hotblack Desiato

Deleted User wrote: »

RTE's one at 11.30. Can't understand why they want to wait so long. Polls are long shut.

To make us sit through the LLS...

Overheal

PurvesGrundy wrote: »

You can be guaranteed that many people were bullied into a Yes vote.

And nobody on the No side ever spat in anyones face and called them baby killers. Right.

wexie

fritzelly wrote: »

Think we need to give some credit to the older generation because if that IT result is accurate then a lot of them are the ones that made this a landslide regardless of the feeling that most people thought they would vote No (I know in my dealings with them in work and socially they were voting Yes, weren't gonna force another generation to go thru the crap they had to deal with)

I was thinking earlier that a lot of people perhaps underestimated or misinterpreted what the older generations might vote for.

I think a lot of them will have stories to tell that would have influenced their votes

Rechuchote

wexie wrote: »

What I would really like to see is a breakdown of yes and no votes : rural/urban, young/old

we're not likely to get that though are we?

Are you joking? The papers and the TV and the radio are going to be jammers with graphs and analysis and detail.

FrancieBrady

...and it's bye bye Iona.

Shurimgreat

FTA69 wrote: »

Of course I'm celebrating the result. Irish women now don't have to suffer lonely trips to England or order dodgy pills online to end unwanted pregnancies. For the first time ever they can exercise control over their own bodies in their own country. I'm delighted. B*llocks to the whingebags.

Ah well there you have it folks. Whooping and hollering and celebrating abortion on demand.

Luckily I think you represent a small minority and most Yes voters are sensitive to the issues concerned.

BrianBoru00

booterboy wrote: »

Lot of Fianna Fail TDs going to be wiped out next election.
Great day for democracy.

Surely it's a great day for democracy regardless of the result?

road_high

Hitman3000 wrote: »

How do you bully someone into voting a certain way? The polling booth is private the ballot slip anonymous.

Poor little snowflakes!

Christy42

Only way this vote is close is if the polling company just made a complete hash of everything and used the complete wrong numbers.

The company would deservedly go bust.

wexie

Rechuchote wrote: »

Are you joking? The papers and the TV and the radio are going to be jammers with graphs and analysis and detail.

Would they all come from the exit polls so?

fergus1001

PurvesGrundy wrote:

You can be guaranteed that many people were bullied into a Yes vote.

as opposed to being bullied by the iona institute

yeah good lad ...

seamus

Anyone who's sad about the outcome - there are going to be around 3,500 empty seats on flights to the UK in the next twelve months. You're free to occupy any one of them.

TheValeyard

If accurate, its a substantial victory and Ireland is truly in the liberal mindset on social issues. Seems the silent no voters havent existed in either referendum.

kunst nugget

Water John wrote: »

It will be an interesting analysis as, the vote was beginning to narrow as the campaign went on. When did this process go into reverse? Was there a seminal moment? Did it just happen as people began to focus and crystalize their views?

Probably Ronan Mullan making a holy show of the no side in the last debate.

nice_guy80

Let's hope it passes

And move on with our lives

martingriff

Well it's over folks the most fractious referendum is over bar the official result. Can we all now just move on to the summer World Cup GAA hurling and football and holidays.

Who am I kidding this is no where finished and been fractious and we now have part 2 the legislation and people lobbying to put stuff in or out, the signing from the president the needless court injunction cases. Let's hope when there is the first 12 week abortion both sides are sensitive enough not to advertise it.

fritzelly

wexie wrote: »

What I would really like to see is a breakdown of yes and no votes : rural/urban, young/old

we're not likely to get that though are we?

We've got the breakdown before

hullaballoo

The issue with the exit polls is always the fact that people will lie to the pollsters. It always happens.

I would still be hopeful (if not confident) of a Yes win but I do still think it will be closer than suggested by the IT/IPSOS poll. Also, I think the RTE poll is the same pollsters, could be wrong.

DrumSteve

martingriff wrote: »

Well it's over folks the most fractious referendum is over bar the official result. Can we all now just move on to the summer World Cup GAA hurling and football and holidays.

Who am I kidding this is no where finished and been fractious and we now have part 2 the legislation and people lobbying to put stuff in or out, the signing from the president the needless court injunction cases. Let's hope when there is the first 12 week abortion both sides are sensitive enough not to advertise it.

If its a landslie they wont have a leg to stand on.

GarIT

Deleted User wrote: »

True, but the I.T. had theirs out in a matter of minutes.

RTE have theirs now, they have had for at least half an hour they just want the ad revenue and numbers boost from revealing the result on the late late and the breakdown of demographics on the news tomorrow morning.

They have formulas set up in SPSS, just need to input the data as they collect it and press one button to generate the result.

OldMrBrennan83

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Hitman3000

super_furry wrote:

Ireland's a mad country. At the same time this news breaks, there's a woman on the Late Late show talking about how she sees and talks to angels on a daily basis.

True, there's lads in dresses every Sunday talking to some invisible fella. Drinking blood and eating flesh. Tis mad Ted.

Movementarian

Shurimgreat wrote: »

Are you just going to pretend the unborn don't exist? And they wouldn't have benefitted from a No vote?

Really don't think you have any grasp of this concept at all. All a no vote would have done is force the same amount of women to go across the water or take illegal medication. Nothing would change and we would still have the abortiona we have now, today. No vote would have protected nothing of what you are speaking of.

erica74

If this is really the result, I have no words. I feel like crying I'm so happy.

castletownman

And now the nastier aspects of the campaign can go back beneath the rock they usually dwell under.

LeinsterDub

wexie wrote: »

What I would really like to see is a breakdown of yes and no votes : rural/urban, young/old

we're not likely to get that though are we?

We'll get a constituency by constituency break down tomorrow

John_Rambo

Shurimgreat wrote: »

Another misrepresentation of the majority of No voters, many largely silent up until lately, who were from day one opposed to unrestricted abortion but in favour of abortion for hard cases.

Day one my hole. You stayed quiet, never said a word for 30 long years, no protests, no lobbying, no effort.. happy with the status quo, sat on your hands happily in control or women.