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Thanks for the corrections. I was being hand-wavey for the sake of quick communication of core concepts, but yup, hence tactical2017 kept just saying "it's complicated".
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No worries, it gets a lot of people. The SDLP is party lefty and part hardcore catholic for example... Alliance has some bible bashers too but not many, Greens are all unbelievers but don't want to say it, the UUP is a little religious too.
I may have gotten a colleague too vote and in his area tactical2017 showed "it's complicated" :)
But it's a total DUP VS SF area, and he can't stand the Shinners or the Duppers... so he may have voted for Alliance. Which has no chance at all. Upper Bann is grim, grim grim...
JWestland
Technically... SF is NOT a catholic party, but marxist in origin. They do not resist the catholic church too much as it can cost them votes. But they aren't religious.
The DUP are total bible bashers though. And in a dodgy thing about a Brexit ad:https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/adam-ramsay-peter-geoghegan/democratic-unionist-party-brexit-campaign-manager-admits-he-didn-t-kn
Because the laws on declaring donations in NI are super lax...