{"id":2871,"date":"2011-08-22T23:59:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2011-08-22T23:59:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:59:45","slug":"a-twitter-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/08\/22\/a-twitter-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"A twitter poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I conducted a poll today. On Twitter. Didn&#8217;t set up an online poll because if I can buck the system and vote multiple times, so can anyone else. Therefore this was done the old fashioned way.<\/p>\n<p>I asked a simple question : If there was an election tomorrow which party will you vote for.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BJP\/NDA<\/li>\n<li>BSP<\/li>\n<li>Congress\/UPA<\/li>\n<li>Left<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The results were as follows:<\/p>\n<p>182 people took the poll (out of 5000+ people who follow me)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>75 said BJP<\/li>\n<li>50 said Congress<\/li>\n<li>25 said depends on Candidate<\/li>\n<li>6 said anyone but the Congress<\/li>\n<li>5 said Left<\/li>\n<li>3 said BSP<\/li>\n<li>16 said none of the above<\/li>\n<li>2 said Team Anna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Their tweets to me were collated on an excel spreadsheet, with names, weeding out duplicate voters \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>There was a reason that Team Anna was not included in the poll &#8211; they aren&#8217;t a political party. There was a reason BSP was included (and many asked me why) &#8211; that is because it is a National Party. Where people indicated TMC or SS &#8211; i added the number to their current alliance partner UPA or NDA.<\/p>\n<p>This poll is not representative insofar as most voters in India are not on twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly I was surprised at the numbers polled by the Congress. Was also surprised at the numbers who said candidate not party. I expected the BJP to get higher votes.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that this dipstick survey tells me is that all is not lost for both parties. both, if infused, by that old quality &#8220;Leadership&#8221; and decision making &#8211; maybe given a chance by the voters. But, they have to reach out, beyond TV studios and beyond sound bytes and go and listen to the citizens of India. Hubris is a terrible quality for most of us in general, and political representatives who depend on voters, in particular.<\/p>\n<p>My advice to them &#8211; go to your constituencies and hear the anger. Be humble. Do not be glib. Do not abuse. Do not run down others. 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