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Exit poll: The post referendum thread. No electioneering.

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  • #2552
    Mushy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,953 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Mushy wrote: »
    Pity the southern towns are in a different constituency, may have swayed it a bit

    How could it?

    Heard on the, Gundogan Ballyshannon areas are in sligo-leitrim. They mentioned that those boxes had 60%+ Yes votes


  • #2553
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,495 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Sheeps wrote: »
    Pregnant women will be the most powerful members of society after this legislation goes through, having veto powers over human life.

    :rolleyes:
    Someone with a gun will be more powerful then them.


  • #2554
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    moloner4 wrote: »
    Anyone get the name off newstalk from the fella who said the media propaganda made the no side lose? It was so cringy he got cut off. :D

    That's ridiculous. You could tell people in the lead up that you're going with YES if you wanted to appear popular/fitting in/progressive and even tell them afterwards that you did so but once you're in the booth it's totally anonymous and you can vote however you truly feel without judgement. In a word, the whole pressure and social stigma angle is bollox.


  • #2555
    Justin Credible Darts
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Justin Credible Darts


    the crying and outbursts by the no brigade has made for some hilarious reading and cannot mask the anger and seething they are having.

    Magnificent.


  • #2556
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    That's a mighty humblebrag sneaking in there :D

    It's just 100% truth and facts, no propaganda.


    :pac:


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  • #2557
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    Fighting Tao wrote: »
    :rolleyes:
    Someone with a gun will be more powerful then them.

    Not in the eyes of the law.


  • #2558
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    There is quite an urban rural divide though? The highest percentage of no votes have been Offaly, limerick, tipperary, galway and Laois, ranging from between 41.9-38.6% NO.
    And the lowest no votes have been Dublin Central ,Wicklow, Kildare North and South, and Dublin North west, all ranging from 23.5-26.9% NO vote


  • #2559
    Shurimgreat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,133 ✭✭✭Shurimgreat


    Amalgam wrote: »
    Cruel and callous is a sceptic tank full of anonymous corpses. Devoid of dignity and identity. Their Mothers driven to the very end of their emotional and physical wits.

    Whereas murdered healthy foetus's will be treated better?

    Where do you think most foetuses aborted by pills will end up? Simple question.


  • #2560
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,246 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Sheeps wrote: »
    The poster I was responding to wasn't talking about rape. They we're making the case that if a father doesn't want a child aborted he should be getting someone pregnant.

    Yes, but you understand that in certain instances a woman can not prevent herself from becoming pregnant?


  • #2561
    blueser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,736 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    Dookie Monster wrote: »
    Ask your priest. That's the Church's position.
    I'll ask again, seeing as you didn't answer me the first time around. Who are you to call for people to be excommunicated?


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  • #2562
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,495 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Sheeps wrote: »
    Not in the eyes of the law.

    They are once licensed and unless they actually shoot someone. At that stage it's too late as they have exercised their power.


  • #2563
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Mushy wrote: »
    Pity the southern towns are in a different constituency, may have swayed it a bit

    Taking in those southern towns, Donegal seems to have gone yes but of course it won’t be recorded that way.


  • #2564
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    wakka12 wrote: »
    There is quite an urban rural divide though? The highest percentage of no votes have been Offaly, limerick, tipperary, galway and Laois, ranging from between 41.9-38.6% NO.
    And the lowest no votes have been Dublin Central ,Wicklow, Kildare North and South, and Dublin North west, all ranging from 23.5-26.9% NO vote

    It's just a higher percentage of young people moving to big urban areas I'd guess and then voting there, leaving an older population in the countryside.


  • #2565
    vg88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 466 ✭✭vg88


    Omackeral wrote: »
    That's ridiculous. You could tell people in the lead up that you're going with YES if you wanted to appear popular/fitting in/progressive and even tell them afterwards that you did so but once you're in the booth it's totally anonymous and you can vote however you truly feel without judgement. In a word, the whole pressure and social stigma angle is bollox.

    It was the Tim Jackson fella from Donegal. It sounded like a vien was going to blow as he spoke, he went on that people didn't know what abortion was and talked about babies being chopped up on air. He didn't seem to accept the landslide result.


  • #2566
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,465 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Sheeps wrote: »
    Pregnant women will be the most powerful members of society after this legislation goes through, having veto powers over human life.

    Irleand doesn't exist in a bubble.

    I don't see this evil preggo cartel manifesting itself anywhere else in the EU.


  • #2567
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    wakka12 wrote: »
    2100 spoiled votes already..christ..how can so many people go wrong drawing an X inside a box

    I'd say there were a lot of thicks putting down ticks.


  • #2568
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Cork South Central
    YES (68.8%)40,071
    NO (31.2%) 18,138


  • #2569
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    Sheeps wrote: »
    The poster I was responding to wasn't talking about rape. They we're making the case that if a father doesn't want a child aborted he should be getting someone pregnant.

    What’s so hard about that?

    I mean there’s loads of contraceptives available to men, or abstinence.

    Absolutely no reason in this day and age for a man, concerned about abortion, to get a woman pregnant.

    If the woman isn’t pregnant, she can’t abort his baby.


  • #2570
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    Taking in those southern towns, Donegal seems to have gone yes but of course it won’t be recorded that way.

    It's still a lot different from 82/18 regardless.


  • #2571
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,495 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Irleand doesn't exist in a bubble.

    I don't see this evil preggo cartel manifesting itself anywhere else in the EU.

    Did you not know that the new thing that women haters (such as incels - although I take that word), don't need a reason to hate women? Pregnant or not they hate them. It's just that they have an opportunity to express themselves right now in the mainstream rather than their own private forums.


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  • #2572
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,972 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    I'm only back watching the rte coverage. Has Mattie spoken yet ?


  • #2573
    Billy86
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    wakka12 wrote: »
    There is quite an urban rural divide though? The highest percentage of no votes have been Offaly, limerick, tipperary, galway and Laois, ranging from between 41.9-38.6% NO.
    And the lowest no votes have been Dublin Central ,Wicklow, Kildare North and South, and Dublin North west, all ranging from 23.5-26.9% NO vote
    There are varying levels of YES support depending on each sure, but they are not divided as they are on the same side (assuming as it appears, that nearly every constituency in the country will be voting YES).


  • #2574
    Shurimgreat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,133 ✭✭✭Shurimgreat


    Amalgam wrote: »
    If only your Mother would have had the luxury of choice (and the gift of hindsight) back then, this thread would be shorter, if nothing else..

    I think comments like this are beyond the pale.


  • #2575
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,465 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Justin Credible Darts wrote: »
    the crying and outbursts by the no brigade has made for some hilarious reading and cannot mask the anger and seething they are having.

    Magnificent.

    451722.jpg


  • #2576
    neonsofa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,476 ✭✭✭neonsofa


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I'd say there were a lot of thicks putting down ticks.

    Ticks are counted once it's a clear unambiguous indication afaik.


  • #2577
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Louth and East Meath vote yes. 20/20 counted constituencies have now voted to repeal


  • #2578
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,806 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Im very shocked by how many more people seemingly voted yes for this than the marriage referendum, in some counties at least. I thought for sure the number of yes voters would be at most the same number who voted yes in the marriage referendum. What explanation could there be for this?

    possible reasons

    a) SSM vote was 3 years ago, so the electorate has increased by everyone who was aged 15-18 in 2015, likely Yes voters. Conversely the people who have left the register in that time would likely be more No voters.

    b) SSM always looked liked a win, yes-leaning people may not have bothered back then hence the higher turnout now. Brexit/Trump shocks and a supposedly close race made people get out and vote.

    c) This may have mattered more to people than SSM which was just 'other peoples issues, that one gay person you know etc'.


  • #2579
    Justin Credible Darts
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Justin Credible Darts


    blueser wrote: »
    I'll ask again, seeing as you didn't answer me the first time around. Who are you to call for people to be excommunicated?


    He has avoided your question.


    People like them think they have some divine right over others and are better than others, such is their mindset


  • #2580
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    neonsofa wrote: »
    Ticks are counted once it's a clear unambiguous indication afaik.

    I just wanted to say thicks and ticks


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  • #2581
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Highest NO vote so far, Roscommon Galway, at 42.8% NO.


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