Austrian Elections & Politics 2.0 (Presidential runoff re-vote: 4 Dec. 2016)

[rob in cal]

  Vdb family history is really interesting.  His grandfather was the governor of Pskov district during the short-lived Russian provisional government in 1917 IIRC.  Then his parents were able to flee Estonia right before full Soviet annexation in 1940 coming to Vienna and then fleeing the Soviets again toward the end of the war.  I wonder how many of Vdb's more left leaning voters realize what a fate his family escaped from. Due to his fathers noble background, wealth, émigré status, flight from Estonia in 1940 etc there's a pretty stong likelihood that a grim fate awaited them if they fell into Soviet hands.  Certainly a more interesting family background then your typical standard issue politician.

[rob in cal]

  For Americans when they visit Austria it seems that the main places they talk about going to are Salzburg, the Tyrol and Vienna, and maybe the abbey at Melk. Intresting places to be sure but there are so many others. I posted about the beauty of Carinthia and the Worthersee area on a European travel forum that is predominately for US tourists and hardly anyone had either heard of the lake or the region.

[rob in cal]

   Do we have the differences in the vote among non married vs married women?  In the US that's always a huge gap with married women much more likely to vote GOP.

[rob in cal]

  I'm actually a bit surprised that a full 75% of voters say that Vdb should swear in a Strache cabinet if it came to that.  I would have thought that a higher % of voters would fall into the "FPO is one step away from a right-wing dictatorship" mind-set.

[rob in cal]

  I guess I'm thinking that there is a broader anti-FPO at all costs part of the Austrian electorate. Btw, when is the next Austrian election, either on the land or city level?