>Do you think it likely Hamas support has declined since 2006? Ah yes, why have any elections in any country for the next century when you can just have a coup

>Do you think it likely Hamas support has declined since 2006? Ah yes, why have any elections in any country for the next century when you can just have a couple of randos like you and I on the internet call those elections for the next 20 years for those hapless pesky fuckers based on our horseshit hunches and save everyone the trouble. What an elegant solution. You'd think that autocratic Hamas government on the ground in Gaza would be as confident as you and have an election just for show if they thought they could break the 50% threshold they couldn't even manage to break in 2006. Who would give up free PR like that? Well I guess someone who couldn't guarentee that'd do better the next time, no? 64% of the current Gaza population wasn't even born at all or at most under the age of 5 in the last election (ages 0-24 now) . Of the remaining 36% of the current Gaza population at least half were under the age of 18 in 2006 (ie between the ages of 24-38). So less than 20% of the current population was eligible to vote in 2006. Of that 20%, only 44%% voted for Hamas, so like 10 percent of the current population of Gaza actually voted for Hamas in an election bygones ago. But hey, I guess you're saying it's obvious that any child who was subjected to two decades of occupation in an apartheid state would naturally vote for terrorists to free themselves from subjugation. So let's go with your gut cause fuck it, those people only live once.