Austrian Parliamentary Election - Sept. 29

[Tender Branson]

Parties out with the closing TV ads:

Greens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON53k9c-n6Q

FPÖ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9sm3XYvHNw

Team Stronach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V9XrXBmV0U

ÖVP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AFzZuFCbzA

SPÖ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sle-6ZZZF3Q

NEOS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLWyHyzL5Ek

KPÖ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QubZAijnjoM

[Zanas]

The KPÖ one seems to be for a televised game, and the Greens' one is horribly boring and seems to be made by a 19-year old art student a little depressive on weed, which it probably is. Plus it has a song in English.

Oh and I can't be bothered to look any of the other ones because of... reasons. I have to be... somewhere doing... something. I think. Or not. Well.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Plus it has a song in English.

Only a French person could see this as something negative.

[Leftbehind]

The KPÖ one seems to be for a televised game, and the Greens' one is horribly boring and seems to be made by a 19-year old art student a little depressive on weed, which it probably is. Plus it has a song in English.

Oh and I can't be bothered to look any of the other ones because of... reasons. I have to be... somewhere doing... something. I think. Or not. Well.

The KPÖ one looks like it wouldn't attract anyone but those already informed/intending to vote them, and the Greens make them look a single-issue environmentalist party. SPÖ had a lot of talking that I couldn't understand, so perhaps I got the wrong impression but seemed all about a child credit? The little drawings were appealing though.

Like you I can't be bothered to watch the rest, mainly because propaganda from parties I dislike holds little appeal.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Alright looked at the commercials.

The FPÖ ad is probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. The Stronach ad is in the same spirit, but not as much over the top.

The only one that is tolerable is the SPÖ one. Not good, but toerable. With ads like these, no wonder your politicians are so unpopular. <.<



 

[Tender Branson]

The ORF Chancellor debate yesterday was won by Chancellor Faymann (SPÖ), says the IMAS poll for the Kronen Zeitung:











http://www.krone.at/Oesterreich/Faymann_entscheidet_Kanzler-Duell_fuer_sich-Hart_aber_herzlich-Story-376910

The debate was mostly about taxes, employment policy, minimum wage, pensions, education and the EU & Euro policy.

You can watch the full debate here:

http://orf.at/wahl13/video/6764463.html

[Beezer]

Team Stronach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V9XrXBmV0U

Has a Michael Bay-esque feel to it. This fall, one man has the courage to stand up for freedom.

[palandio]

I was watching the FPÖ without thinking about anything strange...
... and then ...
at 0:32 I thought: "Do I know that family?"

YES! It's the same (Slovenian!) family that has been used by
the FDP in Germany
the NPD in Germany
and a curd producer from Finnland. (Look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MowlcZ03SA )
(They are not riding bicycles anymore, but it's the same alley, the same clothes...)

[peterould]

I was watching the FPÖ without thinking about anything strange...
... and then ...
at 0:32 I thought: "Do I know that family?"

YES! It's the same (Slovenian!) family that has been used by
the FDP in Germany
the NPD in Germany
and a curd producer from Finnland. (Look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MowlcZ03SA )
(They are not riding bicycles anymore, but it's the same alley, the same clothes...)

Oh the joys of stock footage...

[Hash]

The sweet irony of the FPO using a Slovenian family. Outreach to Carinthian Slovenes?

[Tender Branson]

Palandio, how do you know that this is a Slovenian family ?

As far as I know they use a German ad company, therefore isn't it more likely a German family ?

[freek]

Palandio, how do you know that this is a Slovenian family ?

As far as I know they use a German ad company, therefore isn't it more likely a German family ?

The stock footage was produced by a Slovenian company. See an article about it here: http://www.fr-online.de/bundestagswahl---hintergrund/fdp-wahlkampf-peinlicher-quark,23998104,24144792.html

palandio is right though:

The FDP ad:



The FPÖ ad

[Hash]

I recall the UMP getting an egg on their faces in 2010 (I think, their 2009 ads were the creepy lipdub with women talking with Xavier Bertrand's voice) when their ads about "the new France" and "la France d'apres" with Sarko showing happy families enjoying the "reforms" made by his government were actually stock photos/clips of American families. They noted how the "French families" in the ad were, in the background, throwing around American footballs and the SUV had a California license plate.

[Tender Branson]

Vienna reports more than 150.000 requested absentee ballots.

4.000 more requested so far than the 2008 total.

This is as of last weekend.

And in this last week before the election, a lot more requests will follow ...

[Tender Branson]

Team Stronach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V9XrXBmV0U

Has a Michael Bay-esque feel to it. This fall, one man has the courage to stand up for freedom.

Maybe Stronach hired Tim Pawlenty's ad maker ...

[Tender Branson]

English-speaking news media have a few articles out already:

BBC News Q&A: Austria parliamentary election

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24244913

Reuters article: Right wing strong on Europe fears ahead of Austria poll

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/25/us-austria-elections-right-idUSBRE98O0JJ20130925

[Zanas]

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This is at best terrible news-reporting, at worse terribly oriented, and handing out free publicity to a HP party, news-reporting.

Disgusting.

[Leftbehind]

The media love covering (and thus promoting) fascists - guided by their desire for sensationalism above all.

[Famous Mortimer]

The media love covering (and thus promoting) fascists - guided by their desire for sensationalism above all.

[Tender Branson]

Results page (will go online at 5pm local time Sunday, when polls close):

http://wahl13.bmi.gv.at

Results page for 2008 (federal, state, electoral district, administrative district and city level):

http://wahl08.bmi.gv.at

Historical results maps and analytical maps from the ORF:

http://orf.at/wahl13/daten

[Tender Branson]

The ISA Institute from the ORF political scientist Peter Filzmaier has a nice clickable results map for the 2008 election, down to the city/town level:

http://www.strategieanalysen.at/wahlen/karten

If you click on "Gemeinden/Partei", you can move the bar below the Austria map from left to right, so that only cities where a party got more than 1% are shown, more than 2%, more than 3% and so on ...

This is a very good feature.

[Tender Branson]

The Sunday weather forecast for Austria predicts PERFECT voting weather !

Temps between 15-20°C, cloudy with a mix of slight rain and sun.

In Carinthia, slightly more rainshowers (which could be good for the SPÖ).

In general, the weather is bad enough to not go hiking/cycling, but good enough to go out and vote.

[peterould]

The ISA Institute from the ORF political scientist Peter Filzmaier has a nice clickable results map for the 2008 election, down to the city/town level:

http://www.strategieanalysen.at/wahlen/karten

If you click on "Gemeinden/Partei", you can move the bar below the Austria map from left to right, so that only cities where a party got more than 1% are shown, more than 2%, more than 3% and so on ...

This is a very good feature.

It's really interesting going down to the Gemeinde. I suspect quite a few of those will turn Blue come Sunday.

[peterould]

The ISA Institute from the ORF political scientist Peter Filzmaier has a nice clickable results map for the 2008 election, down to the city/town level:

http://www.strategieanalysen.at/wahlen/karten

If you click on "Gemeinden/Partei", you can move the bar below the Austria map from left to right, so that only cities where a party got more than 1% are shown, more than 2%, more than 3% and so on ...

This is a very good feature.

I just checked Bad Aussee, Altaussee and Grundlesee. I come from such a horribly socialist part of the country....

:-)

[Tender Branson]

The ISA Institute from the ORF political scientist Peter Filzmaier has a nice clickable results map for the 2008 election, down to the city/town level:

http://www.strategieanalysen.at/wahlen/karten

If you click on "Gemeinden/Partei", you can move the bar below the Austria map from left to right, so that only cities where a party got more than 1% are shown, more than 2%, more than 3% and so on ...

This is a very good feature.

I just checked Bad Aussee, Altaussee and Grundlesee. I come from such a horribly socialist part of the country....

:-)

The Ausseerland and Salzkammergut is full of tourists and especially old Austrian people, going to the lake region to retire and die. It's the Florida of Austria. No wonder that the SPÖ does so well there and the FPÖ so poorly. People who also deal with foreign tourists on a daily basis are not as xenophobic.