The 2012 Austrian Election Interlude: The rise of Frank Stronach and more ...

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Haha.

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Why does Strache do worse in the early matchups against Rosenkranz, who's pretty much a Nazi (which Strache is not - not entirely at least)?

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There´s also a new IMAS poll in today`s Presse about the image of Islam in Austria:
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Wow, Austria's a crappy country.

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Austria should be treated as a joke, just like Oklahoma. They're the same.

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There´s also a new IMAS poll in today`s Presse about the image of Islam in Austria:
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Wow, Austria's a crappy country.

Still better than Greece though.

No.

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Rosenkranz was also too bouregois of a candidate to do well with working-class voters who vote for Strache. IIRC, a lot of FPO voters in Vienna are in old working-class areas.

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I would guess the Gehring map to be marginally the most interesting. And turnout o/c.

Der Standard has maps for Gehring its interactive mapping applet. His map clearly shows that like 90% of his voters are OVP voters. His best results are traditionally OVP. Like, for example, 6.9% in Vienna's Innere Stadt.

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Why is Burgenland so leftist anyways? I don't think being formerly Hungarian and all that entails means much.

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Graz and Styria are quite industrial areas iirc and there's some old tradition of syndicalism or something.

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Where does the FPÖ do well again in Vienna?

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Canadians can rejoice. There's a country more stupid than Canada.

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what is Simmering like?

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How come younger voters are so fascist, weirdly sympathetic to the FPÖ? I could understand a broader trend being exaggerated, but this is just hilarious,...

I don't know why, but it's nut unusual in Austria.

Or in other countries. The young electorate is also one of the FN's best electorates in France. The main reason seems to be young white lower middle-class males who are unemployed or maybe young people in rural areas who have been told that teh browns and teh Moslems are taking over tehir jobsz.

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Random question - anybody have a exit poll or poll or something showing the vote motivations for FPO voters and/or the reasons for their votes?

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Random question - anybody have a exit poll or poll or something showing the vote motivations for FPO voters and/or the reasons for their votes?

Is this is a serious question or are you being sarcastic ?

It's obviously a serious question, because I need stuff like that for a paper I'm doing.

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2008 or prior exit poll, or Vienna 2010.

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The Falangists won 39% in Spain last time around, yet they're not on the map. The Generalissimo and his sidekick Fraga would be pissed to see all their hard work not recognized.

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There certainly is a demographic reason to it as well. Such stuff doesn't usually happen without there being a demographic reason to it.

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Pirates are cute, but they're pretty useless, so this Germanic Pirate-mania is becoming a bit stupid.

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Ugh FPTP. I wish all those who complain about the PR/party list systems in their countries, even if they're obviously flawed too, would realize that FPTP is just 100x more horrible.

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Ugh FPTP. I wish all those who complain about the PR/party list systems in their countries, even if they're obviously flawed too, would realize that FPTP is just 100x more horrible.

It sounds like they're proposing MMP, not FPTP. Or am I reading that wrong?

Yeah, it's MMP, but with a disproportionate dose of FPTP.