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Goldwater
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E: 1.55, S: -4.52

« on: March 09, 2017, 02:45:16 PM »

[7] 50Plus
[4] CDA
[12] ChristenUnie
[3] D66
[8] DENK
[14] Forum for Democracy
[10] GroenLinks
[2] Pirate Party
[6] PvdA
[11] PvdD
[15] PVV
[13] SGP
[9] SP
[5] VoorNederland
[1] VVD

Thoughts, David?
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Goldwater
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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2017, 04:17:45 PM »

Well, the point is that many of you guys' votes are just very idiosyncratic. They may represent your opinions quite accurately, and I think many of you have understood what these parties broadly stand for, but an actual Dutch VVD voter who is also fine with CDA would almost never prefer to vote for the SP over the SGP (though GL and perhaps the PvdA over the SGP are more believable). Most people's preferences broadly follow a certain pattern where left-wing parties are preferenced first and right-wing parties afterwards, or the other way around.

Having VNL at 5 and FvD at 14 seems strange to me: these parties have highly similar views, the only difference is their focus and their leadership. I do think VNL's focus may suit your views more, but you'd probably still support FvD over many other parties. And you'd almost certainly prefer any party over DENK (unless you somehow happen to be Turkish and an Erdogan supporter), with the possible exception of the PVV.

Honestly, I don't know much about many of these parties, so that's why I was curious about your input. Smiley

With CDA and SGP, the former seemed kind of "moderate hero" ish while the latter seemed borderline theocratic, though maybe I'm misinterpreting things so maybe CDA should be lower and/or SGP should be higher. As for FvD, I don't know much abou themt so I thought it was safer to assume that they were more like PPV than VNL, better to put them too low than too high was my thought process. And finally, I didn't really understand what they actually were, so I just kind of lumped in the middle with the other leftist parties.

In any case, I realize my views and voting habits will be idiosyncratic pretty much anywhere, I just want to make sure I'm accurate with my idiosyncrasies. Tongue
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