But the Galaxy is better at technical merit, market share and vendor support / performance. As are many of the phones on the poll.

So a load of people voting for the poorest performer out of the two is not helping. I would have thought the better use of the poll would be to let N900 come last. EVERYONE on here voting for another phone to send a clearer message, afterall Nokia don't listen to us and to be associated with the crappest phone is more problematic to Nokia that coming as an 'also ran' in a poll. (then again a lot of their phones are teh crappest phones ever on various polls, depending on what the poll is, so what is the point of polls?)
Better to be stand out from the crowd for something, the message is therefore clearer and of course bad publicity works far more than good publicity if you have a message to carry across.

I voted for samsung but I spent all weekend using my HTC tytn2 as a phone because of the crap N900 not holding charge, resetting every time I pulled out the battery and losing the sim card. So I voted based on my experience of the N900.