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Banz on 19 September 2014
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kowenicki said:
Banz said:
kowenicki said:
Banz said:
I'd expected the Yes voters to edge out the No ones. Still a very narrow margin.
Not surprisingly, Glasgow voted for independence.


In political and electoral terms this isnt "very narrow". 

Votes of 2m v 1.5m isnt "very narrow".


Still 45% is a very significant number of people. That's a large number of Scots who don't want to be a part of Britain.

This wasn't a vote for electing a new government, it was a vote for secession. 45% is huge when you think of that.


...and 55% voted to stay.  That is huge.

So they lost the vote. Doesn't change the fact that almost half of them don't want to stay in your country. In these cases you'd expect one of the sides to be victorious by a huge margin.In the Junagad referendum in 1948, 99% of the voters to join India. That is what you call huge.

45-55 is till too close. As the demographics of Scotland change with time, the result may change.