Denmark parliamentary election: 15-09-2011

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I really hope the left wins! A bright spot in an overall horrific few years for the European left.

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When I was in Denmark most of the people I talked to thought the right would win, although I was in Copenhagen which is fairly left wing and never went for the right to begin with so many may just have a cynical view that the rest of the country will vote to the right as it has in the past few elections.  I should also note France could swing left next year and possibly Germany the year after although I wouldn't get too excited.  It looked for quite a while like the Netherlands and Sweden would swing left, but they did not, so we shall see.  I wonder if the right will do better than the polls suggest due to the fact the demographics that generally vote for them tend to have a better turnout.  I know our politics are quite different, but that is what happened last federal election here in Canada where all the polls suggested a Conservative minority, yet they won a majority.

The cynical thing is quite common the world over to be honest. France is more likely to swing left than Germany to be fair. If anything, it's not outside the realm of possibility for the CDU to win the popular vote and form another grand coalition (or even a Green coalition), but they'll clearly have a harder time than they did in 2009. Although, the left have really developed an ability to monumentally shoot themselves in the foot and steal defeat from the jaws of victory. And Canada's politics, from what I know of it, is generally unpredictable - Canadian elections seem to have more wild, unexpected, swings than many other countries (1993, 2011, many regional elections).

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Megafon poll from yesterday had the Social Democrats slightly behind Venstre, but the left still easily ahead. I hope this doesn't become another left-wing "defeat from the jaws of victory" moment we've grown oh so used to.

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Anyone kind enough to give any brief outlines of the issues, the parties, how the leaders are perceived, etc? Thanks for any help.

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Swedish media is reporting today that the centre-right is gaining back ground according to a poll by Voxmeter, and that they're know only slightly behind the centre-left.

I know nothing about the pollster, so they might just be bad, or it's an outliner. Wouldn't surprise me too much if it were true though. Goverments tend to gain a bit when the election is coming closer. Could end up being a Danish version of Sweden 2006 when the opposition had a decisive lead for a long time before the election, but where the election got really close in the end and the opposition only ending up defeating the goverment by a very slim margin.

  

There's a Megafon poll out today showing the left's lead widening. Looking at some of the other polls as well, Voxmeter appear to be showing noticably less support for the Socialists and the Greens than other pollsters.
http://politiken.dk/politik/meningsmaaleren/

If Helle Thorning Schmidt isn't the next PM of Denmark, the European Left are beyond screwed.

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Shame i'm out tonight. Go Helle!

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Well done Helle! Shame that Venstre is still the largest party, but still, i'm glad

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Regarding "Gucci Helle":

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lol

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Helle's message to British Labour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8JKTfLoD2s

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http://drugi.euractiv.com/elections/denmark-unpopular-government-col-news-513795

Missed this one.

The Red-Greens are closing in on the Social Democrats in the polls and both are dangerously close to the People's Party. What the hell's been going on in Denmark for the new government to have become so hated, so fast? The right already took to flack for the Eurozone crisis here or is it genuinely just leftist voters getting depressed by austerity from a leftist government?