Scots indy results thread

[Tankus]

God..... imagine if there was less that 10 votes that swung it ....

 

[el-ahrairah]

I can't imagine having such easily influenced opinions!

i'm not convinced that people do really. but if one thing can be said to categorise the bettertogether campaign, it's disdain and contempt for the voters - the assumption that the average Scot is thick as pig-shit and unable to cope with any more complex ideas than "vote for the winner". seems to have mostly backfired i reckon.

 

[weepiper]

So:


Muirhouse is one of Edinburgh's most deprived areas.

 

[frogwoman]

http://blogs.channel4.com/paul-maso...ndence-referendum-yes-no-social-movement/2379

 

[JTG]

From the Graun live blog:

Evelyn Stenhouse and Tom Dumphie, on opposite sides of the argument, shared a Twix outside the Mill of Mains polling place. They reckoned the yes voters came up the hill from the housing scheme, the no voters from the private houses on the hill

 

[ddraig]

http://blogs.channel4.com/paul-maso...ndence-referendum-yes-no-social-movement/2379

On George Square last night I had a taste of the anger, enthusiasm and at times hostility of the yes grassroots.

If it’s rough, and profane, it’s because that’s what street politics are like when ideologies collide. That’s what it was like when class defined British politics and if it makes a few technocrats upset, get used to it.

Those people on the streets for yes have become something like a social movement. It is unlikely to go away.

- See more at: http://blogs.channel4.com/paul-maso...-no-social-movement/2379#sthash.jOWisJoS.dpuf

not abuse, real anger

 

[weepiper]

Queueing up to vote in Glasgow this morning

I voted at 8.30 am and 109 votes had already been cast at my polling station in south Edinburgh (and there were four polling stations in the room). There were two film crews there too.

 

[ska invita]

holy shit, I reckon they might just do it.

im with you froggy but what prompted you to say that?

 

[frogwoman]

im with you froggy but what prompted you to say that?

Looking at how many people from such a diversity of backgrounds are voting yes I think.

 

[weepiper]

2.43pm: Reports the turnout so far is close to 80 per cent with suggestions one polling station in Muirhouse apparently exceeding its 2010 turnout by 9.30 this morning.

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/scottish-independence-live-updates-1-3545331

 

[weepiper]

 

[8ball]

I'm not convinced size of turnout plays well for the likelihood of a Yes.

 

[ska invita]

I'm not convinced size of turnout plays well for the likelihood of a Yes.

why not

 

[8ball]

why not

Yes voters generally seem more passionate and engaged - the types that are going to vote anyway.
'Can't be arsed' types seem more likely to vote no to me, and when turnout is high it's the most apathetic that turn up last.

 

[weepiper]

 

[weepiper]

 

[Treacle Toes]

The turnout is more than impressive!

 

[The Boy]

twitter suggests postal votes point to a comfortable no

 

[ska invita]

twitter suggests postal votes point to a comfortable no

what percentage of the overall vote do postal votes make up, anyone?

 

[The Boy]

no idea.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

what percentage of the overall vote do postal votes make up, anyone?

789,024 out of 4,285,323

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-29238890

So 18.4%

 

[weepiper]

what percentage of the overall vote do postal votes make up, anyone?

16%ish

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/scotland-independence-referendum/

 

[ferrelhadley]

twitter suggests postal votes point to a comfortable no

They dont get counted till the polls close.

Edited and they are popular with the over 65, the strongest No demographic.

 

[Lord Camomile]

CNN with some fine work:

 

[SpookyFrank]

'No child left behind' didn't really work then

 

[SpookyFrank]

God..... imagine if there was less that 10 votes that swung it ....

I'm hoping for a tie, and then a sudden death bar fight to settle the matter.

 

[weepiper]

Friockheim in Angus apparently had a 100% turnout.

 

[weepiper]

90% postal vote turnout in Edinburgh.

 

[William of Walworth]

I'm hoping for a tie, and then a sudden death bar fight to settle the matter.

Between Salmond and Cameron? With both losing?

 

[lizzieloo]

I'm trying to watch the results program quietly because my husband has gone to bed, every now and then they drop in a VT, The last one was a piper, had to jump for the remote.

That's gonna happen a fair bit innit.