What a good idea these questionnaires turned out to be. Huge thanks to everyone who filled them out and helped make this happen. Special thanks to Sergei Guriev @guriev.sergei, Michael Nacke @macknack, Galina Timchenko @darthtim, and Tikhon Dzyadko @tikhondzyadko. It was very instructive. There had been endless discussions about the opposition arguing among itself, but once everyone answered questions about the subject of the dispute, it turned out there was no real dispute at all. The overwhelming majority of both opinion leaders and ordinary citizens do not hold any kind of totalitarian position on this issue (see the results in the carousel). Depending on the circumstances, they do not rule out either boycotting the election, voting for “anyone but” the incumbent, or supporting a single unified candidate. We didn’t exactly discover the obvious. This part of the questionnaire shows that as the election date approaches, tactics will be determined not by dogma, but by the situation and by common sense. In addition, we received very important information about how the campaign should be conducted. As it turns out, far from everyone is willing to use their YouTube channels for campaigning. For example, Nacke (1.5 million subscribers), Shulman (1.15 million subscribers), and Guriev (344,000 subscribers), whose channels rank among the most popular “opposition” channels, said they would not do so, as did many of the surveyed YouTube channel owners. Overall, that makes sense. If someone uses their channel for political campaigning, then they are most likely a politician rather than a journalist, political scientist, or economist. And honestly, let’s admit it: we already understand what views the audiences of these channels hold. There is no need to campaign to them. And there is no doubt that the authors will be able to clearly explain their position on the election to their viewers. The conclusions we can draw from this part of the questionnaire are these: there will be no easy, simple campaign formats with broad reach, especially when it comes to undecided voters. We will have to be inventive. In that sense, it is great that we started building DMP-2 back at the beginning of the summer. By the way, join the team of campaign volunteers (write to antiwar@navalny.com if you are outside Russia). Once again, thank you to everyone who filled out the questionnaire. I think this is something worth repeating regularly.