Don't know who to vote for?

JoeSettler here (these are my results)

Don't know who to vote for?

This online wizard will help...

http://israel.kieskompas.nl/language/en





Spot on in my case (Ichud Haleumi).

What I found most interesting is where I agreed and disagreed with the various party platform positions.


I bet Jameel got Ichud Leumi too, but he would never admit it. Or he would admit, but would still vote Likud, as I vote by ideology, and he votes to try to beat the system - now that will be an interesting post (coming soon).

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And the Winner of the Jerusalem Election is....

Still too close to call [1:01 AM]. Haaretz (in Hebrew) reports that in actual results so far, of 124 polling stations out of 707 counted, that Barkat is leading 48.9% to Porush 25.9%

Lurker, please feel free to update, since I'm sure you'll still be awake.

Lurker reporting:

2:30 am:

With 197 of 707 polling stations counted, Barkat now has 52.5%, Porush 33.3%, and Arkadi Gaydamak 9.65%.

The Channel 1 telephone poll predicts 50% for Barkat, 42% for Porush, 7% for Gaydamak, and 1% for Dan Biran (the old hippie stoner guy). Porush's people, however, seem completely unfazed, saying that they are privy to information that is far more reliable than Channel 1's poll, and that come morning, Porush will have won.

3:00 am:

Polling stations counted: 264 out of 707
Barkat: 50%
Porush: 38%
Gaydamak: 6.5%

At Barkat headquarters, they're already celebrating. And at Porush headquarters, they're still smirking...

OK, now I'm going to sleep...

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Sick of Local Elections

I'm sick of our local municipal elections and wish they were over already.

Elections seem to bring out the worst in people; the daily emails I get from the respective candidates are enough to churn one's stomach: He's a liar, he's a criminal, he's doesn't care about this neighborhood, he hates religious Jews, he's not a leader, he hasn't done anything in the past 5, 10, 15, 20 years. Documents, pictures, youtube videos, police repots, traffic reports.

I'm seriously sick of it all. 

Will our community ever get back together again, or is this election the final push for Humpty Dumpty?  If our community can't even conduct an election with a modicum of self-respect, then its no surprise that the Knesset is a joke.

rant over.

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