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5Oct/091

It’s a Yes.

Posted at 11:22 am by Hugh Hamill

67.13% For on a turnout of 59%, the referendum was passed.

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18Sep/094

A Brief Study of Campaign Tricks or Bullshit Bingo

Posted at 2:06 am by Hugh Hamill

I came across this article on RTÉ news today.  It's about the 'No to Lisbon' campaign launch of PANA (The Peace And Neutrality Alliance).

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0907/eulisbon.html

It's not very interesting in and of itself, but serves as a good example of some tricks we have seen in the campaign so far.

I'll go through them here, you can take note of them and watch for them in future press releases, and play a sort of bullshit bingo to spice things up!

Note that I've nothing against either Peace or Neutrality, but I've plenty against cheap tricks and attempts to fool people.

So here we go...

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