Comments by "John Woodrow" (@johnwoodrow8769) on "Paul Murray looks at commentary on Voice post-referendum" video.

Standing on polling booths for 2 weeks you get a lot of people come up to you and tell you why they just voted 'No". I was actually surprised just how well so many people actually understood the implications if 'the voice' were to have got up. So 'yes' campaign, no matter how well you could have run your campaign, you still would of failed because people understood the 'product' was a dud.
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Most of the radical inner city extremists are even really 'aboriginal'. I've got some distant German and Scottish heritage beside my mainly English background. What a joke it would be for me to consider myself any of these nationalities.
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@marklaycock9329 Heaps took only a yes paper at both the prepoll and on the day. They seemed to want to signal their superior 'moral virtue' to the people standing around. So my wife was certain the yes was going to get up at both places, but I kept telling her you don't know what the silent crew are voting. The prepoll station ended up 62% no, and the polling booth 54% no. The polling day area is a pretty woke, lots of youngish professional couples, couple kids. Polling booth was at their primary school.
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@twilightroach4274 The way I looked at it was, the person telling you off, spiting at my wife in one case, or just the huff & puff grandstanding as they pass ..... they think they are displaying their moral superiority, when really all they are displaying is their bigotry and rudeness.
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@twilightroach4274 The 'highlight' of my Saturday was 2 radical 'activist' types who turned up mid morning as yes volunteers for a couple hours. Up till then everyone had been getting on fine. Within 30 seconds the atmosphere turned to total crap, one tying to muscle me out of where I had been standing for the past couple hours, waving a radical poster in my face, harsh words exchanged etc, etc. I asked the yes case 'booth captain' to move them, and she did, moving them to the outer extremes of the school corners. With one looking like a hippy from the 60's and wearing a massive 'voice, treaty, truth' logo on her t-shirt I reckoned she was a good promotion for the 'no' side. Dimwit wasn't even smart enough to realise that was the last message to be sending in a mild middle class suburb.
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@varunhudson2396 Yea, still copped a lot of abuse, and smartarses who pretend to be wanting information but are really looking for a chance to put you down with their great 'intellect'. All they proved was how little they actually knew, their mistake, they assumed you were some dumb redneck who would be a pushover. But still plenty of people supportive. Especially 'tradies' who gave you a wink, a thumbs up, or just a 'thank you' for your effort.
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