It'll be sad if Pora-PRP don't get in, but I don't regret having voted for them.
Yushchenko and Yulia had so much public support in 2004 - and they wiped their asses on it. Since Yushchenko became president, he's made too many counterproductive steps, which at some point became impossible to ignore and seemed to work for the benefit of Yanukovych - or at least let Yanukovych sit back and relax and watch how Yushchenko was killing his high rankings without much external help.
Helping Yushchenko help Yanukovych didn't seem like a good idea. Helping someone with good record and at the same time relatively new to all this circus seemed worth trying.
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In 1999, everyone voted for Kuchma because they were afraid of Symonenko, the Communist leader. Everyone, including Western Ukraine. Later Kuchma turned from lesser evil into the greatest evil, and millions of people came to really regret their choice.
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In the States in 2000, instead of blaming half the country that voted for Bush, many people blamed those who voted for Nader for letting Bush win.
Thank you. I didn't remember about Ross Perot anymore...
ReplyDeleteThere were 44 or 45 parties running in this election - which just isn't serious. And there were four separate votes, not just the parliamentary one. You should have seen those ballots we had to take inside the booths.
Persuading the voters to vote for you is a good idea - only all politicians have different ideas on how to achieve it, and often these ideas don't work.
To scare the shit out of the voters with a ridiculous, unpresentable opponent like Yanukovych (who has been so forgiven for rigging the previous election that most people probably don't remember it anymore) must have been overused to some extent by now - and plus there is the Yulia factor this time...
The bit that really burns me up is that Vitrenko is ahead of Pora-PRP.
ReplyDeleteEeew.
Gosh, it seems that trying to kill the opposition is quite serious.
ReplyDeletePerhaps if you were to be the victim, you would be looking behind you at every step.
Seriously, I am disappointed in the election results. Perhaps the winner is the loser for some reason other than blundering. Perhaps the gun is too close to the leader's head, and he cannot move too far.
Just a thought.