Re: Barcelona, Spain
All very true and correct, of course, but the point about the referendum still stands. It was declared illegal and so the majority of voters were those who wanted change while those "voting" for the status quo stayed away from a declared illegal action. Polls seem to be indicating that an actual and legal referendum vote would be too close to call. The elections today seem to indicate that the majority voted for parties on the side of independence, bit the party with the single largest vote share was a unity party.
It's also worth looking at Scotland. The SNP, strongly pro-independence, swept to power and have retained power almost to the exclusion of all other parties, and yet the referendum vote was against independence, so even people voting for pro-independence parties might not themselves be independence voters. People vote for all sorts of reasons, and, to be honest, I think much of the time it's a vote for the "least worst" option, ie voters never agree with all of the policies of their chosen candidate/party.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
