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NSW State Election March 26th 2011

Saturday, March 12th, 2011

A new Politics/Elections poll has been created. NSW State Election March 26th 2011

The Australian State of New South Wales goes to the polls on Saturday March 26th. Most opinion polls heavily favor the opposition coalition of the Liberal and National parties to easily defeat the sitting Labor government of US born Premier Kristina Keneally, the State’s first female Premier. Who is your pick?

For an overview and election guide by the Australian Broadcasting Commission see http://www.abc.net.au/elections/nsw/2011/guide/preview.htm

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A No-Fly Zone over Libya?

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

CLICK HERE to take our poll: Should Foreign Powers Enforce a “No-Fly Zone” Over Libya?

Today, Libyan war planes launched at least five airstrikes on protestors and rebel forces that seek to oust the leader of Libya, Col. Moammar Gadhafi. Many of the protestors and observers from around the world have called for foreign powers to enforce a “no fly zone” over Libya, which would require the use of foreign military aircraft that would patrol the skies of Libya and shoot down any Libyan plane that flies over the country. Some have suggested the zone could be enforced by Arab countries, NATO, or predominantly by the United States.

Bloomberg News reported that the 22 member Arab League was likely to adopt a resolution this weekend supporting the no-fly zone. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the decision should be made by the U.N. Security Council. There is generally wide support in Libya for the no-fly zone, although some are concerned that foreign involvement could be used in the propaganda battle by Gadhafi’s supporters, particularly if it were led by the U.S. or other Western forces.

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Obama Birther Poll re-retires

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

APRIL 29TH 2011 Following on from Obama releasing his long form birth certificate we have again retired this poll. Obviously there are many people who still have issues but it is no longer a mainstream debate. At the point of closing this poll only 36% of our voters thought he was a citizen.

DEC 29TH 2010: We have decided to bring our Obama birther poll back to life. The poll is entitled Is Obama an American Citizen? and was one of our very first polls in late 2008 because it was a very topical issue then. The poll was popular in terms of garnering votes but it also generated more complaints than any other poll mostly because many people said this is not a real political issue but a fringe issue and taking it seriously denigrates the Office of President and democracy itself.

In the end however we decided plenty of mainstream press covered the issue and while no senior politician gave it oxygen quite a number of politicians did and a number of popular commentators. And people voted on it. So we decided it is a legitimate political issue. As an apolitical forum dedicated to promoting global democratic discourse our only concern is that issues are legitimately political regardless of whether a particular debate is in good taste or “politically correct”.

Over time interest dwindled and we closed the poll. However the issue has been reborn with some verve because of two people in the public eye.

With the Obama family spending time in Hawaii over the 2010 holiday season the new Governor of Hawaii, Neil Abercrombie, has been talking to the Press Corps and wants to put to rest the birther controversy. He was a friend of Obama’s parents and claims the birthers have “a political agenda not worthy of any good American.”

Then Andy Martin, the self-proclaimed ‘king of the birthers,’ announced he’ll run for president. Actually he will run for the Republican nomination for president on a “birther” platform.

To vote in the poll click here. When we turned it off the poll was showing 60% of our voters believing Obama is NOT a citizen.

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Poll Results on GOP Presidential Candidate for 2012

Friday, June 4th, 2010

We have two polls running on the potential race to be GOP Presidential nominee for 2012. One poll is Do you support Sarah Palin as GOP nominee for Presidential candidate in 2012? (Click to see poll or VOTE in it) in which Sarah Palin gets the approval of 48% of those polled (circa 1900 votes so far) and 44% disapprove. 86% of the votes are from the US. So this seems to augur well for the Palin campaign.

However in our more general poll 2012 U.S. Election Poll (Click to see poll or VOTE in it) Palin is number 3 with 5% of the vote behind Mitt Romney on 60% and Ron Paul on 10%. Votes are 80% from the US. However this poll has less votes recorded – 243 – and we suspect there has been an organized campaign to get the Romney numbers up because most votes for him were cast in a period of a few consectuive days.

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Israel Navy raid on aid flotilla. Right or wrong?

Monday, May 31st, 2010

JULY 12TH – HAARETZ Reports Israel’s IDF is to blame the Israeli Navy in scathing report on the Gaza flotilla raid
An Israeli military report to be released today on the Israel Navy’s deadly May raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla is expected to accuse the navy of failing to sufficiently consider the possibility that the commandos would encounter violent resistance when attempting to keep the ships out of Gaza. The report is also expected to criticize the navy for not cooperating sufficiently with the Mossad in gathering information ahead of the flotilla’s arrival and to discuss the process by which the raid was approved. It is not, however, expected to call for disciplinary action against particular officers. Read the full article here.

UPDATE: AS AT 700 GMT ON JUNE 12TH THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN PERCENTAGES WITH 65% VOTING ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 33% IT WAS IN THE RIGHT. With 3000 votes cast 25% of the votes are from Turkey (down 2%) and 17% from Israel (down 5%) with 14% from the US (up 3%). People from 74 countries have voted (up 4). VOTE HERE.

UPDATE: AS AT 1200 GMT ON JUNE 5TH 65% SAID ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 33% SAID IT WAS IN THE RIGHT. With 2400 votes cast 27% of the votes are from Turkey and 22% from Israel with 11% from the US. People from 70 countries have voted. VOTE HERE.

Quite a few people have also sent us tweets, DMs and emails expressing their point of view or suggesting problems with how we phrased the poll or what stories we Tweet. The Israeli Foreign Ministry did Tweet us to say “The interception of the flotilla followed numerous warnings given to the organizers of the flotilla”

All of this is very psotiitve from our point of view as it brings more interaction and involvement with VoteGlobal and what we are seeking to acheive. As ever we are very conscious to remain neutral and simply provide a platform for the democratic sharing of views by everyone.

UPDATE: AS AT 1200 GMT ON JUNE 4TH 65% SAID ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 32% SAID IT WAS IN THE RIGHT. With 2300 votes cast 28% of the votes are from Turkey and 22% from Israel with 10% from the US. People from 69 countries have voted. VOTE HERE.

UPDATE: AS AT 1200 GMT ON JUNE 3RD 65% SAID ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 30% SAID IT WAS IN THE RIGHT. With 2200 votes cast 30% of the votes are from Turkey and 23% from Israel with 9% from the US. People from 67 countries have voted. VOTE HERE.

UPDATE: AS AT 1300 GMT ON JUNE 2ND 67% SAID ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 30% SAID IT WAS IN THE RIGHT. With nearly 2000 votes cast 32% of the votes are from Turkey and 24% from Israel with 7% from the US. People from 64 countries have voted. VOTE HERE.

UPDATE: AS AT 1300 GMT ON JUNE 1ST 65% SAID ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 32% SAID IT WAS IN THE RIGHT. With 1300 votes cast in 24 hours (our Hottest Poll yet) from 54 countries (our best geographic spread for a single poll) it is interesting to note that 33% of the votes are from Turkey and 28% from Israel where clearly the issue has the greatest resonance.

UPDATE: AS AT 2200 GMT ON MAY 31ST 66% SAID ISRAEL WAS IN THE WRONG AND 32% SAID IT WAS IN THE RIGHT.

A new Political poll has been created. Vote here.

Israel says that the organizers of the Gaza aid flotilla have connections to international terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Al-Qaida, and called the aid convoy a violent and provocative attempt to break the blockade on Gaza. Israel says it found weapons aboard the Gaza flotilla, which were used against IDF troops.

The Turkish agency that organized the Turkish ships carrying aid to Gaza, International Humanitarian Relief, or IHH, denied activists onboard attacked Israeli soldiers and says “The ships went through several customs. No one on board was armed,”

“Israel broke all international laws,” said Abdurahman Dilipak, a Turkish intellectual speaking at the press conference on behalf of several NGOs.

What do you think?

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Colombian Presidential Election, 2010

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

UPDATED June 20th 2300 Bogotá time
Governing party candidate Juan Manuel Santos has won the final round of Colombia’s presidential elections. With almost all the votes counted, Mr Santos had won 69% of the ballots and was more than 40 points ahead of his rival – Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus. Mr Santos shares outgoing President Alvaro Uribe’s tough line on security. Click here for BBC article

UPDATED May 30th 2015 Bogotá time
With 99% of the vote counted Juan Manuel Santos has a commanding lead with 46.56% of the vote however not an outright majority so there will be a run off against Antanas Mockus who has 21.49%. The run-off will be held on Sunday June 20th.

Consequently we now have a run-off poll loaded. Please click here to vote.

RESULTS of May 30th Presidential Election
Juan Manuel Santos – 46.56% – Votes: 6,758,539
Antanas Mockus – 21.49% – Votes: 3,120,716
German Vargas – 10.13% – Votes: 1,471,377
Gustavo Petro – 9.16% – Votes: 1,329,512
Noemí Sanín – 6.14% – Votes: 892,323
Rafael Pardo – 4.38% – Votes: 636,624

The Colombian presidential elections of 2010 will be held on May 30. A referendum proposal that would have allowed incumbent President Álvaro Uribe the opportunity to run for a third term was rejected by the Constitutional Court of Colombia in a 7-2 ruling on February 26, 2010. Should no candidate receive over half of votes on May 30, a run-off will happen on June 20 between the two candidates receiving the highest percentages of votes. (Source Wikipedia)

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The Washington Post says; Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday is among the most compelling in Latin America in a long time, pitting a quirky former university president and big-city mayor who wears an Abraham Lincoln-like beard against the scion of a powerful establishment family who became one of the country’s most successful defense ministers. Full article.

MICHAELA CANCELA-KIEFFER (AFP):
Colombians head to the polls on Sunday to choose from among nine candidates their next president, with former defense minister Juan Manuel Santos and former Bogota mayor Antanas Mockus neck-and-neck to replace President Alvaro Uribe. Sunday’s ballot is the first round in the election, in which the nine candidates will be whittled down to just two — likely Santos and Mockus — in a knockout round on June 20. The latest opinion polls indicate a second round is unavoidable given how close the two top contenders are running — around 35 percent each, with some of the trailing rivals, especially conservative Noemi Sanin and leftist Gustavo Petro gaining enough ground to carry some negotiating weight before the climax vote. The Organization of American States, which has sent 85 observers to the election, has warned Colombia’s voting system — manual count and results sent by phone — could pose some difficulties. Read full article

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Is it time for the UK to change the First Past the Post sytem?

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

UPDATED JULY 5TH, 2010 The BBC says a referendum on changing the UK’s voting system is planned for May 5th, 2011.
A vote on changing from first-past-the-post to the alternative vote (AV) could be held on the day of Holyrood, Welsh Assembly and English local elections. But the government must first get it through Parliament and may face a rebellion by Tory MPs. View the full BBC article.

OUR POLL shows 77% of our respondents in favour of reform. Vote here (Click).

On May 8th, 2010 a new Politics/Elections poll was created in reaction to calls in the UK for electoral reform following the election.

Vote here in “Is it time to change the First Past the Post sytem?”

There is an online petition (click here) which as of July 5th has 47,972 signatures so far and a Twitter campaign.

The Electoral Commission says “19th Century political system continues to deny millions of voters a say in our politics, producing unrepresentative governments and unaccountable politicians. It stands in the way of 21st Century politics.”

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UK Elections: Parties and Leaders

Monday, April 26th, 2010

On May 6, 45 million Britons will have the opportunity to vote for a new Member of Parliament to represent their area. The party with the most elected members will then form a new government. Generally, the leader of the winning party—the party that holds more than 50 percent of seats in the House of Commons—will serve as prime minister. Though as the BBC notes, if no party wins enough seats to form an outright majority government—a situation referred to as a hung Parliament—“it is possible that two other parties could decide to work together in a coalition if they can rely on more than half the votes of MPs.”

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CRITICAL ISSUES: What do you think will be a key issue in deciding this election?
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Best and Worst of 2009

Friday, January 1st, 2010

The results are in! Our best and worst of 2009 Polls are now closed, with over 550 votes cast between them, from over 40 different countries.

The Top World Political Figure of 2009 is a clear winner: Barack Obama with 31% of the votes cast, followed by ‘none of the above’ with 15% and Hu Jintao of China with 13% of voters.

Barack Obama comes out on top again in the Top US Politician Poll, with 35% of the votes, Bill Clinton as runner up with 24% and Sarah palin in third with 13%.

In the most active of our Best and Worst of 2009 Polls, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad garnered a huge majority of the votes, with 62% calling him the Worst Political figure of 2009. Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi came in a distant second with 9% of the votes with Barack Obama just behind taking 6% of the votes.

The Economic Crisis was our voter’s choice for Top Political Issue of 2009, receiving 40% of all the votes, Climate Change came in second with 16% and Healthcare and the Middle East tied for third with 14%.

For the Worst U.S. Politician of 2009, once again Barack Obama takes the lead, with 36% of votes, Sarah Palin narrowly trailing with 28%. No-one else came close!

Worst Political Move of 2009 award goes to ‘The Blagojevich Auction’ with 33% of votes, Obama’s Public Option comes in second at 25% with Joe Wilson’s ‘You Lie!’ coming in third with 20% of the vote.

Glenn Beck edged out Keith Olbermann as your ‘Worst Political Commentator of 2009‘ with 32% and 28% of the vote respectively. Rush Limbaugh came in third with 21%.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad featured strongly in our ‘Biggest Political Liar of 2009‘ Poll, with 44% of the vote, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and Silvio Berlusconi all showing well, too, with Palin and Obama tied for second place at 13%, and Berlusconi at 10%.

Thanks for voting, everyone! Full Results:

Top US Political Figure of 2009?

Barack Obama 35%
Hillary Clinton (Sec. State) 5%
Sarah Palin 13%
Bill Clinton 24%
Sonia Sotomayo 2%
John McCain 10%
Edward Kennedy 0%
Ben Bernanke 8%

Top World Political Figure of 2009?

Barack Obama (US) 31%
Hu Jintao (PRC) 13%
Nicolas Sarkozy (FR) 8%
Ban Ki Moon (UN) 2%
Gordon Brown (UK) 8%
Mir Hossein Mousavi (Iran) 8%
Angela Merkel (Germany) 11%
None of the above 15%

Worst Political Figure of 2009?

Barack Obama (US) 8%
Silvio Berlusconi (Italy) 9%
Hugo Chavez (Venezuela) 6%
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe) 6%
Kim Jong-Il (North Korea) 3%
Mahmoud Ahmedinejad (Iran) 62%
Gordon Brown (UK) 1%
None of the above 2%

Top Political Issue of 2009?

Economic Crisis 40%
Climate Change/Global Warming 16%
Middle East 14%
Nuclear weapons 4%
Education 4%
Healthcare 14%
None of the above 6%

Worst U.S. Politician of 2009?

Barack Obama 36%
Hillary Clinton (Sec. State) 5%
Ben Bernanke 1%
Sarah Palin 28%
Van Jones 5%
Joe Wilson 9%
Christopher Dodd 7%
None of the above 3%

Worst U.S. Political move of 2009?

“You Lie!” 20%
The Public Option 25%
The Biden Bunker Reveal 4%
The Sanford Affair 8%
The Blagojevich ‘Auction’ 33%
The Ensign Affair 0%
The Grayson Slur 0%
None of the above 8%

Worst Political Commentator of 2009?

Glenn Beck 32%
Sean Hannity 3%
Rush Limbaugh 21%
Rachel Maddow 3%
Chris Matthews 3%
Bill O’Reilly 3%
Keith Olbermann 28%
none of the above 3%

Biggest Political Liar?

Sarah Palin 13%
Al Gore 6%
Barack Obama 13%
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 44%
Hugo Chavez 3%
Silvio Berlusconi 10%
Don’t know 3%
None of the above 3%

Posted in Elections - General, Politics - Africa, Politics - Asia-Pacific, Politics - E.U., Politics - Global, Politics - Latin America, Politics - Middle East, Politics - South Asia, Politics - U.S., QuickPolls, lifestyle/health, people + places | 5 Comments »

Second attack in a week on Berlusconi…

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

A man tried to enter the hospital room of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Tuesday night, as the leader recovered from being hit in the face Sunday.
The man was detained. No further details about him were immediately available but Italian media reported that he was carrying a knife.
Berlusconi, for his part, will remain in the hospital at least one day longer than expected, his doctor said Wednesday. Berlusconi, a conservative media mogul-turned-politician, has been dogged by allegations of corruption and is the middle of a messy divorce from his second wife.
Read more on this article at CNN…

Meanwhile, in our poll “Should Berlusconi Step Down“, 64% of VoteGlobal.com voters think he should step down, 11% say he should be removed from office. What do you think? Voto!

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