Just a few days ago there was a story here about new Russian law requiring Wi-Fi registration. It turn out they would require registration of commercial and non-standard equipment. Earlier there was a story about creating an isolated Russian Internet. It turned out they just want to use Cyrillic letters in domain names. There were many stories like this before and each time they were twisted to cause cries about dictator Putin and slavish Russians. Are these posted by "message force multipliers"?
Yep, that's resonable. All the other parties have small but very loyal supporters. They always come to vote. The conjecture that the lines should be horizontal is based on the assumption that "lazy" voters have the same distribution of political preferences as "active" voters which is clearly not the case in Russia. In a two-party system the lines should be more or less horizontal. In a system where there is one popular (dominating) party and a number of non-conformist parties you should expect that high turnout favors the biggest.
The only thing that this graph demonstrates is that Putin is supported by overwhelming majority. Majority is always passive. In regions where they get more of mainstream voters to show up - they get better percentage voting for Putin.
All other parties are marginalized and supported by radical activists. Old communists and progressive followers of SPS come to vote no matter what. Their respective percentages go down in the regions where mainstream voters show up.
One would expect that Slashdot crowd would be able to analyze this sort of things for themselves.
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Just a few days ago there was a story here about new Russian law requiring Wi-Fi registration. It turn out they would require registration of commercial and non-standard equipment. Earlier there was a story about creating an isolated Russian Internet. It turned out they just want to use Cyrillic letters in domain names. There were many stories like this before and each time they were twisted to cause cries about dictator Putin and slavish Russians. Are these posted by "message force multipliers"?
Yep, that's resonable. All the other parties have small but very loyal supporters.
They always come to vote.
The conjecture that the lines should be horizontal is based on the assumption that "lazy" voters have the same distribution of political preferences as "active" voters which is clearly not the case in Russia.
In a two-party system the lines should be more or less horizontal. In a system where there is one popular (dominating) party and a number of non-conformist parties you should expect that high turnout favors the biggest.
The only thing that this graph demonstrates is that Putin is supported by overwhelming majority.
Majority is always passive. In regions where they get more of mainstream voters to show up - they get better percentage voting for Putin.
All other parties are marginalized and supported by radical activists. Old communists and progressive followers of SPS come to vote no matter what. Their respective percentages go down in the regions where mainstream voters show up.
One would expect that Slashdot crowd would be able to analyze this sort of things for themselves.