Would you change your voting intention following a terrorist attack?

[Solly]

If, as in Spain, a terrorist attack happened only a short time before a national election, would it affect your voting behaviour?

If so, why?

[Verto]

Nope.

[Paul Hanson]

Nah.

[*End Is Forever*]

Not a chance.

[GePap]

it depends on the circumstances of the attack and the positions of each side.

[Dauphin]

In and of itself, no.

A politician's reactions to it may effect my decision if those reactions seemed extreme or totally incompetent.

[Ned]

Regardless of whether you say you will change your views or not, the results in Spain guarantee that al Qaeda will attack or attempt to attack across the world to influence elections in its favor.

[Q Classic]

nope. i'm voting against bush on purely budgetary grounds.

[Q Classic]

in fact, the only way my vote would change is if the terrorist attack killed me.

[Q Classic]

although i'm not sure if i really could vote for kerry. so i might just decide to stay home.

so in that case, the terrorists killing me would have a net change in my voting pattern of zero.

[General Ludd]

Anyone who wouldn't be influenced by it is one of those people who just subscribes to a party and votes for it no matter what. So it's kind of a moot question.

[The Templar]

No.

Originally posted by Ned
Regardless of whether you say you will change your views or not, the results in Spain guarantee that al Qaeda will attack or attempt to attack across the world to influence elections in its favor.

We have yet to establish that Spain voted socialist to avoid future attacks. And don't give me that polls crap - like a poll has never been wrong. Max Clelend was up 10 points in Georgia the weekend before Saxby beat him. Does that prove Diebold rigged their e-voting machines?


BTW, how was the economy doing in Spain? That might explain a transition to socialism ...

[Tattila the Hun]

If I happen to succumb in the act, no.

It really depends on the political agenda of the attackers. If I share their beliefs, and calculate the popularity swing caused by the act (casualties+media=support), I just might vote for them.

Ahem, no. Not many here would chance their vote based on such thing... We too smart.

[Q Classic]

are you sure about that? i mean, i can't stand kerry or most democrats, but a bombing that didn't kill me still wouldn't change my opinion that bush has got to go.

if there were a different, more fiscally responsible republican that i could trust, i'd vote for him in a heartbeat over kerry. and if there were to be a perfect, independent candidate, i'd vote for him/her/it over anybody in the field.

bombing or no bombing, i'm not voting along party lines, but against bush. so are you sure it's a moot question?

[The Templar]

Originally posted by General Ludd
Anyone who wouldn't be influenced by it is one of those people who just subscribes to a party and votes for it no matter what. So it's kind of a moot question.

Or those people might have concerns other than terrorism. The economy, judicial appointments, that the current leaders are crooks, etc.