Vote’n'surf – first one, then the other

Uuh! Who am I gonna vote for today? It’s election time! Help me someone!!

More than 20 percent of all Danes had not made up their mind by tuesday morning – the day the votes should be cast in the municipal elections in Denmark. I’d had thought they’d run straight for the web, feverish trying to make sense of the politics, looks or integrity of this or the other candidate.

Not so.

Actually you could hardly notice any effects on the pace at which people flocked to the web. They did pretty much what they always do.

But then, at 18.00, two hours before the votings were closed, something happened. And all night activity on the news-sites grew at an ever higher pace. Then it slowed down. But wednesday morning, the day after the election, it boomed again.

This off course was not about anybody wanting to find out who to vote for. For all I know, the 20 percent have voted in total ignorance.

It’s about getting into a collective mood, being exited about who gets the most votes, who draws the longest straw. And it is – subsquently – about following the cat fight going on at the townhall trying to constistute a new magistrate.

At least this is some of the inferences I made from studying the stats. Read on in my new report: