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Who do you support in the FIDE presidential election (updated poll)?
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Postafi wrote:
A poll like this can be very deceptive.
In open ballot voting, the undecided will instinctively check who is leading the vote and join the perceived majority, thus creating a snowball effect.
Much like in Master vs Many vote chess.
This other poll illustrates the divisive nature of @macer75:
http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=5b270b89e4b0e8b3e30fb45a
As if my divisive nature needed any illustration.
But to your other point: I'm not sure about that. Whenever I vote in a poll that I know and/or care nothing about, I always choose the option that seems the most ridiculous, which is usually not the one that is leading.
Not to mention that you have to click on "see results" before you vote to see who is leading, and I doubt that many people are willing to put in that extra effort.
Well... so far it seems that the election comes down to a two-way race between Makropoulos and Short, with the former enjoying a majority of support and a comfortable lead. Dvorkovich is not a factor, and Short has his work cut out for him.
Under the current circumstances, perhaps it would be wise for Short to make an appeal to the sizeable 9% of the electorate who are as yet undecided. But even if he manages to garner all of their support, he would still need to get some Makropoulos supporters to change their minds. Will he manage to somehow win wnough support by election day and pull off a stunning upset? We'll have to wait and see.
Short-Makropoulos or Regular-Makropoulos
macer75 wrote:
Well... so far it seems that the election comes down to a two-way race between Makropoulos and Short, with the former enjoying a majority of support and a comfortable lead. Dvorkovich is not a factor, and Short has his work cut out for him.
Under the current circumstances, perhaps it would be wise for Short to make an appeal to the sizeable 9% of the electorate who are as yet undecided. But even if he manages to garner all of their support, he would still need to get some Makropoulos supporters to change their minds. Will he manage to somehow win wnough support by election day and pull off a stunning upset? We'll have to wait and see.
It will be very hard for Short to overcome the votes that Makropolous buys from small relatively poor countries, much like his predecessor did.
Nigel Short because I only know him.
Oh my... we have had a major change in the game! As of right now, Makropoulos' support is at 49% - meaning that if Short manages to snag up the 9% undecided vote, he just might be able to beat Makropoulos by the slimmest of margins! Of course, one should not take for granted that he will be able to pull off such a feat, but it is safe to say that the race is getting more and more interesting!
Hillary Clinton, just like the last time.
It seems that we've just seen another Makropoulos surge. About 28 votes were suddenly cast in a span of minutes, and judging from the change in levels of support (which went from 48% to 54% for one particular candidate), virtually all of them seem to have been for Makro.
... and after an additional 100 (!) or so votes overnight, Makropoulos currently sits at 63%.
Arkady Dvorkovich! Hands down!
MSC157 wrote:
varelse1 wrote:
Short!!
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Keres would be a good president.
Arkady Dvorkovich would be a good choice. (Short...well, less said the better Amateurish, boorish. Makropoulos is Fide old guard)
ROBLOX is obviously da wae
love how autocorrect capitalized that for me
I heard and read much about Short and his ideas, but I heard nothing about what Makropoulos or Dvorkovich are planning to change.
Where can I find out more about them? Any reason for me to even consider supporting one of them instead?
I mean, I see Makropoulos having almost 59% in this poll, while I know completely nothing about him ???
See post #17.
Then again, last night there were about 20 votes, which once again resulted in an uptick in the Makropoulos vote. It wasn't nearly as dramatic as last time, but the main reason for that is probably that there were already so many votes cast. So either the person/people stuffing the ballot are pretty insistent, or perhaps it isn't really vote-stuffing. Maybe it's just a question of time zones - that supporters of Makropoulos and Short tend to live in different parts of the world, and are awake at different times, and thus votes for the two candidates tend to come in spurts.
As for finding out more about the candidates, chess.com has written a couple of news articles on them. Beyond that I can't really suggest anything more specific than a Google search.