Surprise, surprise

While bird flu has been officially discovered in Israel, there seems to have been a less life threatening, but just as contagious disease going around - nonvoteisitis.

Most polls predict a sure win for Prime Minister Sharon's party Kadima, a second place for The Labor Party and third for Likud. All this is very well, but there are many, many, many people who have not yet decided who they are going to vote for (or if they are going to vote at all), me included.

I expect a couple of (perhaps big) surprises on election day. These "floating votes" represent a large percentage of the voting population and could cause many things to happen. A small party could suddenly get very big, a big party could suddenly get bigger, the percentage of the floaters could be proportionally equally deviated and nothing could change, or the floaters could not vote, and a low turn out would be a winning party.

There are a lot of people who are sick of the whole situation, especially the part where we have elections every two years without changing anything. I wouldn't be at all surprised, to be surprised come the 28th of March.

Links:
The Knesset official website