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Fun fact: The exact same argument was used to argue against women's suffrage. Apparently the husband would have too large an influence.
by solveit 8y ago
Fun fact: The exact same argument was used to argue against women's suffrage. Apparently the husband would have too large an influence.
- bri3d 8y agoThis is fascinating - I'm not particularly sold on this line of reasoning to begin with, having both secret balloting and the privilege to have been able to dramatically disagree with my parents politically as a child. Certainly by high school the majority of my classmates were qualified to vote.
- squiggleblaz 8y agoYes and I wonder if media consumers should lose the right to vote too, since their opinions will often be strongly influenced by the media that they read - effectively Murdoch has millions of votes even though he isn't a citizen of this country any more. Surely the only independent people are the MP's themselves, and so they should be able to vote for whomever they please.
- zaarn 8y agoWould be an interesting study to conduct, most families I know vote similar but is that actually the case and does family influence how you vote or does who you vote for influence who you live with as family?