Who do you intend to vote for in the upcoming Irish Presidential election?

Deedsie · 19-09-2011 07:30AM #1

Who do you intend to vote for in the upcoming Irish Presidential election?

I know there are plenty of presidential election threads already but I can't find any with a poll! I know there can still be nominations up to the 28th of September. But of the main candidates touted, where is your vote going? I know David Norris is unlikely to get the required nomination but I am putting him in the poll!

Temptamperu · 19-09-2011 07:34AM

theres no poll

Also i wont be wasting my time voting for a waste of money.

lugha · 19-09-2011 07:34AM

Deedsie wrote: »

Who do you intend to vote for in the upcoming Irish Presidential election?

I know there are plenty of presidential election threads already but I can't find any with a poll! I know there can still be nominations up to the 28th of September. But of the main candidates touted, where is your vote going? I know David Norris is unlikely to get the required nomination but I am putting him in the poll!

Once again, a promise to David with respect to getting on the balllot is reneged upon! (you forgot the poll)

Riamfada · 19-09-2011 07:36AM

All we need is Bertie to throw his name in to complete the farce.

Deedsie · 19-09-2011 07:37AM

Temptamperu wrote: »

theres no poll

Poll up now, it takes a minute after I post the thread to get the poll options typed out and live on the thread!

Plug · 19-09-2011 07:38AM

Martin McGuinness.

Deedsie · 19-09-2011 07:38AM

Temptamperu wrote: »

theres no poll

Poll up now, it takes a minute after I post the thread to get the poll options typed out and live on the thread!

PeterIanStaker · 19-09-2011 08:04AM

I put down Higgins - least worst and best of a very bad lot.

I don't want McGuinness (who I feel will be disproportionally well represented in this poll) or the Archangel Gabriel to get it, and I'm not sure if Norris will re-enter but he'll also do well in this poll methinks.

Deedsie · 19-09-2011 08:11AM

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

I put down Higgins - least worst and best of a very bad lot.

I don't want McGuinness (who I feel will be disproportionally well represented in this poll) or the Archangel Gabriel to get it, and I'm not sure if Norris will re-enter but he'll also do well in this poll methinks.

Why do you think it will be disproportional? One vote for each Boardsie. Wasn't the general election poll incredibly accurate?

Pherekydes · 19-09-2011 08:12AM

Another premature poll.

Can't we wait until the field is set, i.e. until the nominations are closed?

Blazer · 19-09-2011 09:47AM

so Norris+ McGuinness in front? It's true...the majority of Irish people are fúcking morons when it comes to elections.

opinion guy · 19-09-2011 09:52AM

I was going to not vote but not that mcGuinnes is running I'll have to vote for someone else lest he gets in and I did nothing to stop him

Elmidena · 19-09-2011 09:57AM

I'll be voting for John Henry Eden, a president I can believe in.

Malcolm

squod · 19-09-2011 10:05AM

Moar Norris trolls!

stovelid · 19-09-2011 10:21AM

I'm voting Marty on a vicarious whiff of cordite ticket. My cecks are as wet as Mary Lou's just thinking about his manly never-a-terrorist-honestly aura.

Lord TSC · 19-09-2011 10:32AM

I'll be honest. I picked Norris. And it's not that I wanted to vote for him. I am sorely tempted to print off a picture of Martin Sheen, bring it with me on the day, superglue it onto my ballot paper and vote for him.

But if the choice is, as it would seem here, between Norris and McGuiness, then I will pick the lesser of the two evils. Tbh, I don't like any of the candidates but I really don't want Sinn Fein to win this.

Blazer · 19-09-2011 11:19AM

I picked Mary Harris..at least she seems to be doing some good with the special Olympics etc.. just from what I read quickly on a wiki page.

woodoo · 19-09-2011 11:23AM

Sc@recrow wrote: »

so Norris+ McGuinness in front? It's true...the majority of Irish people are fúcking morons when it comes to elections.

One man one vote.

FetchTheGin · 19-09-2011 11:25AM

President Atari Jaguar has a nice ring to it.

joshrogan · 19-09-2011 11:26AM

I'm 18 on the 29th of October so I can't vote

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DrumSteve · 19-09-2011 11:28AM

I'm going to vote for Michael D Higgins. The sort of person I'd like to represent our country. Always comes across well when i've seen him.

Laisurg · 19-09-2011 11:30AM

Sc@recrow wrote: »

so Norris+ McGuinness in front? It's true...the majority of Irish people are fúcking morons when it comes to elections.

Well who do you think should be elected oh wise one? tenner bet you'll be voting for Gay Mitchell :pac:

Liam Byrne · 19-09-2011 11:44AM

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

I put down Higgins - least worst and best of a very bad lot.

Same here. Don't particularly want to vote for him and am still hoping that someone decent will enter the race, but time is getting short.

Blazer · 19-09-2011 11:44AM

Laisurg wrote: »

Well who do you think should be elected oh wise one? tenner bet you'll be voting for Gay Mitchell :pac:

Point proven!!!!;) Post 17

mikemac · 19-09-2011 11:47AM

Vote Michael D, let the West awake

Morlar · 19-09-2011 11:49AM

President Martin McGuinness.

Who would you prefer at the 2016 100th year 1916 anniversary commemorations ?

Somone checking his watch, not wanting to be there . . . or Martin McGuinness ?

Kess73 · 19-09-2011 12:09PM

There is not one candidate that I would vote for. It has been farcical to date, and the only thing that it suggests to me is that the role should be scrapped.

mikemac · 19-09-2011 12:11PM

A shame John Hume is in ill health.

If he ran he's be so far ahead he would win for sure

President Hume

Sooopie · 19-09-2011 12:13PM

None of them

Guy:Incognito · 19-09-2011 12:13PM

Morlar wrote: »

President Martin McGuinness.

Who would you prefer at the 2016 100th year 1916 anniversary commemorations ?

Somone checking his watch, not wanting to be there . . . or Martin McGuinness ?

Maybe he'll organise a reenactment and blow a few buildings up.

stargazer 68 · 19-09-2011 12:14PM

Personally I think the money wasted on this election and the job itself could be better spent elsewhere!

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