On Saturday, November 4th, President Brunhilde and Vice President Rach took office. In an attempt to learn more about the events that led up to that, this poll was created. From November 5th to 7th, this poll was open in the Grand Hall, and accumulated 37 responses. Let's examine them.*
*I will not be including the graphs or discussing the Oak/DT responses, as the number was very low. They are included in this poll's raw data if you wish to see them, however.
Brunhilde/Rach Voters
Darcness/Sopo Voters
Brunhilde/Rach Voters
Darcness/Sopo Voters
Brunhilde/Rach Voters
Voters were really all over the map on their priorities, so it is tough to draw any conclusions from this data.
Darcness/Sopo Voters
While there is also a spread here, there is more common response relating to Interior and the strength of the candidates' leadership.
Brunhilde/Rach Voters
Counter to the narrative surrounding this election, it appears most respondents here did not encounter any campaigning that made them feel uncomfortable, and the few that did were unwilling to share their feelings, which is, of course, their right.
Darcness/Sopo Voters
Okay, here is some variation. Darcness voters, it seems were pretty uncomfortable with the way campaigning was done by the other ticket in the race, with many describing circumstances where they were made to feel guilty, and as if their friendship was on the line in this election. This is a little upsetting to see, but perhaps more surprising that while the majority of Darcness respondents felt this way, it hardly happened at all to our Brunhilde respondents, meaning the targeting was pretty much one-way, if this data is correct. I hope that this data was able to bring light to this troubling occurrence in a way that resolves the issue through discussion.
Brunhilde/Rach Voters
Darcness/Sopo Voters
Brunhilde/Rach Voters
Darcness/Sopo
Brunhilde/Rach Voters
Darcness/Sopo Voters
Thank you to all respondents of this poll, I really appreciate your participation, and the data we gathered from it. I hope this helped shine some light on this election, and provides some context for our discussions going forward. Until next time, this is Calvin Coolidge, holding his head in his hands.
Raw Data
*I will not be including the graphs or discussing the Oak/DT responses, as the number was very low. They are included in this poll's raw data if you wish to see them, however.
This poll broke down to have 17 Brunhilde/Rach voters, 18 Darcness/Sopo voters, and 2 Oakrugia/Dark Templar voters. Obviously, the polling sample here varies slightly from the election results, but I hope that problem is mitigated by the sectioning off of the different voter bases.Brunhilde/Rach Voters
The Brun voters who responded to this poll overwhelmingly feel they are active on the forum, yet only a 10-7 majority are active in the Executive government. Obviously, this is not a perfect measurement for activity overall, but shows a different kind of activity to consider when considering the type of voter the candidate attracts.Darcness/Sopo Voters
These results are pretty comparable to the Brun voters' responses, so, at least when it comes to those who responded to this poll, there is no significant difference in the number of active/inactive voters for either ticket, by either measure. Of course, this poll was not taken by many voters, so take this finding with a grain of salt.Brunhilde/Rach Voters
Despite the potential view that this ticket represented a variation from the status quo, the vast majority of respondents here were fine with the direction the region was heading.Darcness/Sopo Voters
Nearly double the respondents believed the region was not the right track pre-election compared to Brun's voters. Of course, the vast majority of both felt the region was on the right track, but these numbers are a little surprising considering the narrative of the race and the respective candidates.Brunhilde/Rach Voters
- Leadership
- Culture
- Overall vision for the region.
- Foreign presence
- Ending the states program
- Foreign affairs.
- That candidates are proposing new ideas.
- Radio/Interior
- integration
Darcness/Sopo Voters
- Newcomer integration
- Foreign Affairs
- The quality of the specific people on the tickets and the overall broad vision of the candidates
- Interior
- Electing leaders for Vice President who inspire and promote good leadership qualities.
- Electing a President who understands the whole of Government and not just one facet, and one who doesn't just pander by changing their platform mid election.
- Domestic/Integration
- Radio and foreign outreach
- new citizen engagement
Brunhilde/Rach Voters
- I never was. No one gave me a hard sell, probably assumed I was pro-Brun and didn't bother. Sopo jokingly tried to convince me to vote Darc, but I never felt pressured.
Darcness/Sopo Voters
- I would prefer not to
- A candidate said the election showed who real friends were
- It's uncomfortable to only be spoken to when someone wants something when prior to this they either didn't give you the time of day or spend their time making disparaging comments about you.
- There was just too much drama going on, with the whole JayDee thing and several inexperienced newcomer tickets. I was not personally approached but I'm just happy the election is over.
- I was contacted and made to feel guilty, along with other things I am not comfortable mentioning...
- There was a lot of campaigning over Discord, and there were incidents in which I heard that one candidate used emotions or guilt to unfairly gain a vote.
- rach pushed for me to break party lines and support her over drac
- I was guilted by the opposing ticket, and told that our friendship depended on my vote.
Brunhilde/Rach Voters
One of the most-talked issues of the election was the conduct by former Minister of Communications and Vice Presidential candidate JayDee regarding the deletion of EBC poll data, and the fallout from that. He resigned from the ticket and the Ministry, and posted a resignation from his Justice position, then retracted it. Voters from the ticket he was once on are fairly forgiving of JayDee, with the majority only being in favor of his resignation from the Presidential ticket, though not forgiving enough to say that there should have been no consequence.Darcness/Sopo Voters
Here, the respondents are less forgiving, with the majority approving of both JayDee's resignation from the Presidential ticket and the Ministry of Communications. Respondents here were slightly more likely to wish for a Judicial resignation, but neither ticket has that strong of a support for it.Brunhilde/Rach Voters
One of the claims by JayDee during his Grand Hall post entitled "A lot of things" was that he once believe Europeia to be a meritocracy, but after the course of this election he no longer believed that was the case. Curious to see what the general public believed, I asked this question. While the majority of Brun respondents disagree with JayDee, the margin is close enough that there is clearly a large number of citizens who agree with that sentiment.Darcness/Sopo
The responses here are rather similar to the Brun respondents, which perhaps might speak more to the general identity of Europeia, which is in question equally by both camps, and is something that will likely be discussed more as time goes on and events play out.Brunhilde/Rach Voters
- Some people work hard and barely get noticed. Others barely do anything, but get all of the recognition and credit.
- JayDee was right in withdrawing his VP candidacy, but there was no need to resign as MinComm. That being said, since he did, he should have gone ahead and resigned everything if he felt his judgement was compromised enough to resign one position.
- This election had two strong candidates but they both had seriously flawed platforms and made poor VP choices.
- Europeia is not a meritocracy because it's a democracy. We don't have an examination board that decides who gets government offices. Personal merit is part of the equation, but so are ideas and bedside manner (or popularity, if you prefer) and, you know, politics.
- Abolish the government.
- The JayDee question is out of place on this poll, and I feel like it's going to be used to apply pressure to a situation that should be allowed to lay; JayDee has already owned up to and faced the consequences of his actions, Calvin's continual efforts to attack and push out a promising up and coming Europeian should be looked at firmly and with a hard eye.
Darcness/Sopo Voters
- It still feels meritocratic right now, yes.
- I don't know that a meritocracy os a bad thing. You do the work well and you get the rewards of your work. When you're rewarded and didn't put in the work, that shows something a bit broken in the system.
- Less of an meritocracy due to the results of this election. It's discord spamming.
- Something is wrong in Europeia
Thank you to all respondents of this poll, I really appreciate your participation, and the data we gathered from it. I hope this helped shine some light on this election, and provides some context for our discussions going forward. Until next time, this is Calvin Coolidge, holding his head in his hands.
Raw Data