1. I am counting S019 as a Democrat despite his sporting a GOP avatar, since he professes to, in reality, be a centre-left Democrat from New Jersey.
2. I will also NOT be tabulating any recommendations by Abdullah (sorry) since that will skew the results in favour of independent voters.
3. I will be tabulating each recommendation as one vote, so if one person recommends, say, 5 of my votes, and they are a Democrat, then that counts as 5 (not one) votes for Democrats.
4. I will be putting both raw votes and percentage of total votes for each party.
5. I will not be weighting my posts in any way.
6. Lastly, I will only be viewing the last 400 of my posts, as I believe they would be fairly representative of all my posts.
So here are the results given my 6 above rules, requirements, restrictions and regulations:
73 Democratic recommends (47.71%)
41 Republican recommends (26.80%)
20 Independent recommends (13.07%)
9 Socialist recommends (5.88%)
5 Other recommends (3.27%)
3 Libertarian recommends (1.96%)
2 NO AVATAR recommends (both from JM1295)
Here are the updated results. This time, I've given Abdullah his own category, but did not factor him into the final percentages for the sake of consistency (if he was included all other categories would fall by a lot and it would be harder to compare which parties gained ground and which parties lost ground):
46 Independent recommends (30.67%)
33 Republican recommends (22%)
32 Democratic recommends (21.33%)
14 Socialist recommends (9.33%)
11 Other recommends (7.33%)
7 NO AVATAR recommends (4.67%)
4 Green recommends (2.67%)
2 Constitutionalist recommends (1.33%)
1 Libertarian recommend (0.67%)
(28 Abdullah recommends)
The difference is honestly striking.
Admittedly most of my blue avatar recommends have been from GregTheGreat and flyingmongoose, but nonetheless, the GOP has beaten the Democrats by the narrowest of margins.
The Democrats have plummeted to third place from a solid first place.
The Independents have skyrocketed: earlier they were a distant, weak third - now, coming first by a very comfortable margin, and this is without including Abdullah as an independent! They have a powerful plurality. This is due largely to Christian Man and WM recommending my posts frequently.
The Greens have also done better - going from 0 seats to 3, and Constitutionalists have won their first two seats, while Libertarians have plummeted from 3 seats to one. NO AVATAR, Other and Socialists have also greatly improved.
My total recommends (not counting Abdullah's either time) have decreased slightly from 153 to a round 150.
