votes in last election (Score 2)

This guy had a huge amount of votes in the previous pseudo-election they had. This is not a joke! When I asked some of my friends that live there why the heck they voted for this looney -- their answer was, and I quote: "Because when he gets a lot of votes, the other russians will get scared of the possibility of him being the next president, and won't vote for him in the future." I lived the first half of my life in Russia, so I should be pretty versed in how they think. But there's no way I will ever understand the rationale behind their actions (probably cause there isn't any) in respect to voting for this clown.