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After Hours Presidential Election Poll

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  • #1052
    yermanoffthetv
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 625 ✭✭✭yermanoffthetv


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    That happens right across the welfare state, in settled communities as well.

    What Casey did was target a minority community and only days later started on about the welfare state.

    His action was despicable and hopefully Ireland will tell him that at the poll. 'Frustration', should not be exploited in that way.

    That's your interpretation. Many don't see it that way, many have the view that he made a legitimate observation on an area that has been made taboo by political correctness and needs to be discussed. People are weary of the double standards, feigned outrage and perpetual victimhood, including (and this might burst your liberal ecco chamber bubble) some travelers, who find it patronizing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gML1-50MaaA


  • #1053
    Hhugedick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 63 ✭✭Hhugedick


    Grayson wrote: »
    I'd say 20 years and a day. Does that make me more hardcore than you? am I winning?

    You do realise that we have prison sentences for this already? And the president has absolutely nothing to do with those?

    I don't care for the office of president, I'm only commenting on peter Casey bringing such crimes virtually always commited by tinkers to the fore, yes I am aware that we have sentences for said crimes but they are much lower than my suggestion of minimum 20 years. I know these last 7 or 8 days have been very tough for the tinker apologists but I'm sure you'll move on to some other worthy cause. Did I offend you snowflake


  • #1054
    jimjangles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭jimjangles


    Hhugedick :D
    I don't know any travellers or tinkers as you call them but is your argument that all crime is committed by travellers? Also you think Peter Casey is your saviour?
    You may want to get a grip on reality.
    I do agree that anyone that does those crimes you mentioned deserves over 20 years or life in jail though.


  • #1055
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Smart Bug wrote: »
    This whole thread is a microcosm of the rise of current populist trends across the world.

    Wtf has happened to this site? Used to be that level headed people spoke here, now it’s an echo chamber of rants & crap.

    Also, even though the position’s aren’t paralleled, how can you excuse a ‘protest vote’ for Peter ‘Trump-lite’ Casey when you see what such ‘protest votes’ achieved in the US?

    Maybe protest voting is a convenient excuse for actually wanting to vote for a narcissistic crapbucket.

    Cause I'm mad as well and not going to take it anymore. :)


  • #1056
    ThunbergsAreGo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭ThunbergsAreGo


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    So basically Higgins is unbeatable, in the opinion of the people whose livelihood depends on getting it right

    He is unbeatable, despite not turning up for two debates and most people being unable to point out any actual achievement of his in office

    Most will vote for him as he is "in the job". When was the last time an incumbent stood and didn't win?

    It would probably be most cost efficient to just make it a 14 year term and forget about the middle election, such is the lack of relevance the role has and the amount general Ireland care about who is our president


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  • #1057
    DavidLyons_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭DavidLyons_


    jimjangles wrote: »
    Hhugedick :D
    I don't know any travellers or tinkers as you call them but is your argument that all crime is committed by travellers? Also you think Peter Casey is your saviour?
    You may want to get a grip on reality.
    I do agree that anyone that does those crimes you mentioned deserves over 20 years or life in jail though.
    You don’t know any travelers???

    Good grief!! Lucky you.

    Fact is Peter has tapped into a subject many of the hard working classes of Ireland feel strongly about. He’s also touched a nerve with the victims of crimes perpetrated by travelers. He is unlikely to win on Friday (but he just might) but if he polls we’ll (comes second or third) a lovely strong and firm message will have been sent as to how many of us really feel.

    I really believe some idiots are fearful that a good turnout for Casey will cause many to implode with rage that their cozy worldview has been challenged. That alone makes voting for him worthwhile.

    VOTE PETER CASEY NO. 1.


  • #1058
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,896 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    naughtb4 wrote: »
    He is unbeatable, despite not turning up for two debates and most people being unable to point out any actual achievement of his in office

    Most will vote for him as he is "in the job". When was the last time an incumbent stood and didn't win?
    Incumbents lose their seats in every general and local elections. It's not unusual at all, when you have alternative candidates that aren't utter dicks.

    And as he said himself, Higgins has been turning up since 1969.


  • #1059
    ThunbergsAreGo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭ThunbergsAreGo


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Incumbents lose their seats in every general and local elections. It's not unusual at all, when you have alternative candidates that aren't utter dicks.

    And as he said himself, Higgins has been turning up since 1969.

    At a presidential election I meant

    So is turning up a reason to vote for someone? Turning up to a well paid profession. What about achievements in his time in office? A socialist president has overseen ”record homelessness"

    It's not even a dig, it's a why bother. Irish people don't like, or care enough to change presidents. Has anyone ever actually been voted out of the office of president in this country?

    Why bother, just make it max 7 years, or just go the full 14


  • #1060
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,240 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Incumbents lose their seats in every general and local elections. It's not unusual at all, when you have alternative candidates that aren't utter dicks.

    And as he said himself, Higgins has been turning up since 1969.

    An incumbent president has only been challenged once before (DeValera) and he almost did lose.


  • #1061
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    naughtb4 wrote: »
    What about achievements in his time in office? A socialist president has overseen ”record homelessness"

    What can our President do in terms of combating homelessness?


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  • #1062
    DChancer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭DChancer


    Thread should be renamed "Who wants to be a Millionaire" poll!
    :D:D:D


  • #1063
    ThunbergsAreGo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭ThunbergsAreGo


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    What can our President do in terms of combating homelessness?

    What can any of them do? About anything? What has Higgins done to generate 70% polling apart from being the incumbent.

    What are we actually voting for? Someone to shake hands it seems, something any official could do, and live in a big house on a large salary.


  • #1064
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    When does the moratorium black out begin, because I'm beginning to smell a rat ref the complete and utter failure of any polling stats being released post 16th of Oct.

    Would it be too cynical of me to perhaps suspect that Casey is polling a hell of a lot better than the 2% they had claimed (and keep regurgitating as "news" ever since), the media and the establishment are afraid of their shyte that Casey's votes will get momentum, and so - and with the embargo rapidly approaching, the polling numbers of the 16th is what we'll be left with?

    If the social media platforms, radio text in programmes, and general consensus amongst people i talk with (during my daily work), are anything to go by....Casey has a serious amount of support out there.

    Not to mention, the bookies odds.....

    I smell a rat.


  • #1065
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    I've been told by my uncle in the know that Casey is polling extremely well.


  • #1066
    alan partridge aha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,356 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    It's disgraceful that there isn't a more recent poll.


  • #1067
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    alan partridge aha wrote: »
    It's disgraceful that there isn't a more recent poll.

    The Pale are scared ****less that Casey will get in.


  • #1068
    alan partridge aha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,356 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    CloughCasey1 wrote: »
    The Pale are scared ****less that Casey will get in.

    Fine Gael have a post on Facebook with a lot of tds singing the praise of MDH in one sentence. Pathetic


  • #1069
    dav3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭dav3


    alan partridge aha wrote: »
    It's disgraceful that there isn't a more recent poll.

    You're posting in a poll thread. Is it not recent enough for you?

    Casey will receive more votes than all the other candidates combined, no need for a second round.


  • #1070
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Grayson wrote: »
    To be fair there's been a load of crap on this thread. We even had idiots claiming that higgins is having an affair.

    I'm voting for Casey, but if Michael D is having an affair at 77 I might just change my mind and vote for him.
    When I'm 77 I just pray to god I still have enough strength and hand eye co-ordination to have a **** never mind an affair!


  • #1071
    Med101007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭Med101007


    Is Peter Casey actually gonna win this election?? He has gone from rank 300/1 outsider to now the 16/1 second favourite behind MDH. Granted MDH is still the odds on favourite at 1/50 but am I missing something completely. How is Casey now 16/1??

    (Sorry I am just raging because I was thinking of sticking a fiver on Casey at 300/1 for the craic but I didn't do it so I can't believe my eyes this morning to see he is now the second favourite with Paddy Power)


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  • #1072
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Med101007 wrote: »
    Is Peter Casey actually gonna win this election?? He has gone from rank 300/1 outsider to now the 16/1 second favourite behind MDH. Granted MDH is still the odds on favourite at 1/50 but am I missing something completely. How is Casey now 16/1??

    (Sorry I am just raging because I was thinking of sticking a fiver on Casey at 300/1 for the craic but I didn't do it so I can't believe my eyes this morning to see he is now the second favourite with Paddy Power)

    he wont win

    all i want to see is a very strong second place finish


  • #1073
    Human Sausage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭Human Sausage


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    When does the moratorium black out begin, because I'm beginning to smell a rat ref the complete and utter failure of any polling stats being released post 16th of Oct.

    Would it be too cynical of me to perhaps suspect that Casey is polling a hell of a lot better than the 2% they had claimed (and keep regurgitating as "news" ever since), the media and the establishment are afraid of their shyte that Casey's votes will get momentum, and so - and with the embargo rapidly approaching, the polling numbers of the 16th is what we'll be left with?

    If the social media platforms, radio text in programmes, and general consensus amongst people i talk with (during my daily work), are anything to go by....Casey has a serious amount of support out there.

    Not to mention, the bookies odds.....

    I smell a rat.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=576


  • #1074
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,460 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    This poor man shot dead in cork.a man has been arrested. Decent chance it was by a traveller! The scum media wouldn’t release that until after the election though. These idiots voting mdh are responsible for the cesspit this nation is becoming!

    https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2018/1024/1006281-macroom-cork/


  • #1075
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,460 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    Grayson wrote: »
    To be fair there's been a load of crap on this thread. We even had idiots claiming that higgins is having an affair.

    The only thing he’s having an affair with is his ring! His precious!


  • #1076
    BIGT4464
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭BIGT4464


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    When does the moratorium black out begin, because I'm beginning to smell a rat ref the complete and utter failure of any polling stats being released post 16th of Oct.

    Would it be too cynical of me to perhaps suspect that Casey is polling a hell of a lot better than the 2% they had claimed (and keep regurgitating as "news" ever since), the media and the establishment are afraid of their shyte that Casey's votes will get momentum, and so - and with the embargo rapidly approaching,  the polling numbers of the 16th is what we'll be left with?

    If the social media platforms,  radio text in programmes,  and general consensus amongst people i talk with (during my daily work), are anything to go by....Casey has a serious amount of support out there.  

    Not to mention, the bookies odds.....

    I smell a rat.
    YEs, but the bookies still have him as a big outsider, just like the others.


  • #1077
    Conservative
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Conservative


    Med101007 wrote: »
    Is Peter Casey actually gonna win this election?? He has gone from rank 300/1 outsider to now the 16/1 second favourite behind MDH. Granted MDH is still the odds on favourite at 1/50 but am I missing something completely. How is Casey now 16/1??

    (Sorry I am just raging because I was thinking of sticking a fiver on Casey at 300/1 for the craic but I didn't do it so I can't believe my eyes this morning to see he is now the second favourite with Paddy Power)

    I'm not much of a gambler but there was a post earlier with odds of 10/11 w/o MDH.

    Best I can find currently is 4/6. Is there anything better out there?


  • #1078
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    This poor man shot dead in cork.a man has been arrested. Decent chance it was by a traveller! The scum media wouldn’t release that until after the election though. These idiots voting mdh are responsible for the cesspit this nation is becoming!

    https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2018/1024/1006281-macroom-cork/

    It seems to be about a local dispute with a man in his sixties after being arrested. It doesn't sound like travellers to me but I'll water for the facts before deciding to be outraged.

    How was voting for MDH in a ceremonial role turning the country into a cesspit and how will voting in Peter Casey change that?


  • #1079
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,404 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    When does the moratorium black out begin

    2pm today, but that's just for broadcasters.


  • #1080
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    Why is the poll on this thread so completely out of kilter with national polls, media predictions etc.

    Are Boards.ie members a complete anamoly?


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  • #1081
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lilly Fat Below wrote: »
    Why is the poll on this thread so completely out of kilter with national polls, media predictions etc.

    Are Boards.ie members a complete anamoly?

    When was the last national poll, Bella?


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