http://www.ewanspence.com/blog/2008/05/25/the-myth-of-political-voting-at-eurovision/ Podcaster, Blogger, Writer, New Media Junkie... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:45:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.ewanspence.com/blog/2008/05/25/the-myth-of-political-voting-at-eurovision/comment-page-1/#comment-413580 Scottish Roundup » Blog Archive » Better late than never… Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:12:01 +0000 http://www.ewanspence.com/blog/?p=1521#comment-413580 [...] Ewan Spence and I tried to debunk the Eurovision political bloc voting theory. An unprecedented 14 different [...] [...] Ewan Spence and I tried to debunk the Eurovision political bloc voting theory. An unprecedented 14 different [...]

]]> http://www.ewanspence.com/blog/2008/05/25/the-myth-of-political-voting-at-eurovision/comment-page-1/#comment-401939 Mark Mon, 26 May 2008 07:39:09 +0000 http://www.ewanspence.com/blog/?p=1521#comment-401939 We're in complete agreement with respect to the myth of bloc voting but do you think there's room to expand the disallowance to vote for yourself to include your neighbouring countries too? We’re in complete agreement with respect to the myth of bloc voting but do you think there’s room to expand the disallowance to vote for yourself to include your neighbouring countries too?

]]> http://www.ewanspence.com/blog/2008/05/25/the-myth-of-political-voting-at-eurovision/comment-page-1/#comment-400406 Frank Koehntopp Sun, 25 May 2008 17:12:08 +0000 http://www.ewanspence.com/blog/?p=1521#comment-400406 I don't know... my observation is that countries with a lot of expats from a certain other country tend to send votes into their home country at a higher rate one would expect were it only due to musical taste. Maybe the absence makes their patriotism stronger. We always have no votes from Austria for Germany (...), France voting for Portugal, Germany voting for Turkey etc. This iste has some interesting comment: http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12003 I don’t know… my observation is that countries with a lot of expats from a certain other country tend to send votes into their home country at a higher rate one would expect were it only due to musical taste. Maybe the absence makes their patriotism stronger.
We always have no votes from Austria for Germany (…), France voting for Portugal, Germany voting for Turkey etc.
This iste has some interesting comment: http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12003

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