ITS A MEDIA CONSPIRACY DAMMIT !!! The media tends to ignore voter turnout figures in elections in the same way as the parties do ("The electorate have spoken !!!" yeah sure less than 50% usually) so you have to dig them out. Likewise they like to talk about swings all the time even in situations such as the European elections recently where the BNP won a couple of seats due to a collapse in turnout of voters for the other party and no change in votes for the BNP. It's a sign of poor journalism.
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Date: 2010-05-10 10:06 am (UTC)The media tends to ignore voter turnout figures in elections in the same way as the parties do ("The electorate have spoken !!!" yeah sure less than 50% usually) so you have to dig them out.
Likewise they like to talk about swings all the time even in situations such as the European elections recently where the BNP won a couple of seats due to a collapse in turnout of voters for the other party and no change in votes for the BNP.
It's a sign of poor journalism.