Very good. The crooks are absolutely losing it, twisting themselves into knots and getting sent off to the military draft office. Channel One:
http://youtu.be/WWd9oQIdDBc Second channel:
http://youtu.be/vrYTwDojd_0 NTV:
http://youtu.be/WvuagJ-YjS0 in full here. United Russia website:
By the way, take a look at two interesting comparative analyses: Naganov compares the statistics of the Coordinating Council elections and United Russia’s primaries. Buzin (one of the country’s top experts on election monitoring) compares the Central Election Commission and the Central Voting Committee. And the best news of all: Volkov has published an analysis of the Coordinating Council election results broken down by Moscow vs. the regions and online vs. offline. Congratulations to everyone on the collapse of the myth that Moscow and the regions vote differently because they have different “political preferences” and “information environments.” The voting patterns are almost completely identical: O*n the left: Moscow and Moscow Region. On the right: all other regions. (The breakdown is by telephone area codes).a0 What do you think? The TOP 30 matches completely (!). I**nside the MKAD and outside the MKAD vote the same way! There are minor differences in the order of the candidates, but no more than that. I included the top 60 in the table, and basically all the patterns are visible: Moscow municipal deputy Natalya Chernysheva ranks higher in the “Moscow” table, while regionalist Fyodor Krasheninnikov ranks higher in the “regional” one. Well-known figures in the Moscow protest movement such as Konstantin Yankauskas, Mikhail Shneider, and Yulia Galyamina make the TOP 60 only in Moscow, while regional voters pick St. Petersburg’s Gulyaev and Chelyabinsk’s Skalauk instead—but overall, all the differences are purely cosmetic.a0 Even more striking is the online/offline comparison: comparison by verification method. The first table is online, the second is offline. (Keep in mind that the second table also includes everyone who verified offline but then voted online!). It would seem reasonable to expect major differences—hipsters are one thing, gray-haired veterans another—but no!a0 **... all in all, if you look at the TOP 30, once again it’s clear that there is almost no difference at all * It had been assumed (by me as well) that the voting of the older offline crowd (roughly, the audience of Echo of Moscow, a well-known Russian radio station) would differ significantly from those who get their news from the internet every day and are so comfortable with it that they managed to verify online. But they hardly differ at all. Pretty cool. Update: Today’s Volkov-Krasheninnikov article in Vedomosti, “Cloud Democracy Has Come Closer.”