A thought.... provoked by filklore_on_lj

[fleetfootmike]

What percentage of the folks who don't vote in a supposedly 'sure' seat don't vote because they don't think voting against the clear favourite will make any difference?

What if they all voted?

Comments

[armb.livejournal.com]

No, my contention is that it is almost certainly not so different that it would change the result in somewhere seen as a safe seat.
(If you can come up with some method of persuading those who don't bother because it's a lost cause without also persuading those who don't bother because it's a done deal, then it would make a difference even if the spread was the same. In that case, I'd also like a pony.)

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

I'd like a pony too. I just haven't given up on the possibility of getting one.