They tolerated him - even respected and admired him - as a brilliant vote-getter who allowed some moderately social-democratic things to be done behind all the headline-grabbing stuff about being horrid to asylum-seekers.
He says: It feels brilliant to vote for something I believe in.
She is also a brilliant teacher (voted one of the top 10 in the UK by Yoga Magazine).
I'm pretty sure I can guess which way your hypothetical 100 brilliant artists would vote.
Other voices and ideas are simply unheard, no matter how brilliant, valuable, or vote-worthy they might be.
Check out Simon Johnson's brilliant post on the vote to break up the banks, suggesting that while they won this round, they may be facing their Waterloo soon.
In choosing Mr Lieberman, the paper says, Connecticut voterswere well aware of how much they stood to gain by sending an independent agent to WashingtonIf so, a brilliant piece of tactical voting.
Or Tommy, a 21-year-old student and former Lib Dem supporter, who had not considered voting SNP before the "brilliant and invigorating" referendum campaign.
Finally, I caught a beautiful, brilliant friend of mine lying about voting.
Hand said he stood by Boaty McBoatface as a "brilliant name" for the research ship, but he voted for RRS David Attenborough, which came in fifth with 10,284 votes.
When he chose Sarah Palin it seemed a brilliant move to get the anti-intellectual Joe Six Pack vote.
