Poll – Which is your preferred Cyprus Problem solution?

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
05/11/2009 11:05

on http://www.northcyprusfreepress.com

waddo


Joined: 29/11/2008
Posts: 1966

Message Posted:
05/11/2009 11:52

Good poll but it only shows the percentages of responses and not as a percent of the total of responses. Looks good on paper but if only 10 people respond and all bar one opt for number 1 we would never know and think that out of 350,000 responses that everyone - bar a few - wanted number 1. Can a total number of responses be included to give a better idea??

ilovecyprus


Joined: 08/05/2007
Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
05/11/2009 11:58

To get a more accurate answer on the likley outcome, perhaps it might be better to ask the question:



What will the final solution be?



Also, do not allow people to see the results until they have polled. This prevents people being influenced by the poll results.

malsancak


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Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
05/11/2009 12:24

PollDaddy are a bit inflexible (but free) and the final % and number polled will be published. We did that for the first poll. As for what the outcome will be, I suppose we could run a poll asking people to guess what might happen but there are too many variables to make it a "pick one of these" poll.

Mal

Editor of NCFP

malsancak


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Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
05/11/2009 12:27

13 people polled so far, one comment "independent EU state" which is kind of a go it alone answer. The last poll gained 120 responses.

newlad



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Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
05/11/2009 12:42

"something along the lines of the anan plan" seems a bit vague to me,

Paul.

Aslan


Joined: 23/06/2008
Posts: 757

Message Posted:
05/11/2009 14:03

The best solution to the Cyprus problem is to go back to Blighty and forget it exists

Brinsley


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Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
05/11/2009 14:07

Msg 3



I thought the idea of a 'final solution' was extinguished in 1945!



Richard

malsancak


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Message Posted:
05/11/2009 16:02

msg 6, Paul says, ""something along the lines of the anan plan" seems a bit vague to me"

I thought a lot about that and having read the details of the plan and the objections to it I was torn between the long "2 separate states with a weak federal government..." route with several variations of the plan being discussed but in the end settled with ""something along the lines of the Annan plan." There is an "other" section where you can add your own alternative if you don't like my generalisations.

malsancak


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Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
05/11/2009 17:16

after 40 votes the poll at http://www.northcyprusfreepress.com seems to be split fairly equally between the three options: "Annan Plan(ish)", "go with Turkey" or "go it alone"

malsancak


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Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
05/11/2009 22:15

With 54 votes in, the poll on http://www.northcyprusfreepress.com is now completely evenly divided between the three choices

greylag


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Posts: 1110

Message Posted:
05/11/2009 22:23

My votes in but its a secret,

Grey.

wynyardman



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Posts: 4580

Message Posted:
05/11/2009 23:10

You can narrow the choice down if you work on the basis of what will work. There are too many options for what will NOT work.



I have my views, but I wont be voting, so it would be pointless to express them!



Just my view, thats all.



wynyardman

malsancak


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Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
06/11/2009 16:05

with 89 votes in, the Turkey option is reducing, perhaps they read the "go with Turkey" article on http://www.northcyprusfreepress.com/2009/11/06/the-go-with-turkey-north-cyprus-option



something along the lines of the Annan Plan - 30 34%

the TRNC to go it alone - 26 29%

become part of Turkey - 25 28%

Other answer... - 8 9%

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