Dutch general election - September 2012

[minionofmidas]

Uhuh.

Wrong election, you ignoramus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_presidential_election,_2012

Wormyguy derails a thread once again. Can all of these posts please be deleted?

Are you retarded?  Someone makes a comment about how it's "sad" that the renamed-SED are doing poorly, I say that I'm not unhappy that the Stasi party is going down the drain, Al makes one of his holier-than-thou comments implying moral equivalence between the renamed-SED and the CDU because Merkel grew up in East Germany and Antonio some idiotic pseudo-sarcasm to the effect he doesn't believe the renamed-SED is the Stasi party, I provide an example of a recent event in which the renamed-SED went on record hysterically defending the Stasi.

That's not what they did. And that's not what Al was commenting on. And Deadflag thinks you linked to the wrong election because in the one you linked to, the other ex-Stasi party too refused to elect the guy with (somewhat exaggerated, actually, though he was still an FF) anticommie credentials.

[minionofmidas]

One of these days someone is going to have to explain the Dutch electorate (as it is now) to me.

They're sane insofar as they do not like and feel little attachment to their political parties, but otherwise fairly bonkers. They also offer a good glimpse at the probable future of the German body politic.

I think that should suffice as explanation.

[minionofmidas]

On 6 items you disagree with SP.

SP   
GroenLinks   
PvdA   
Partij voor Mens en Spirit   
Partij voor de Dieren   
Piratenpartij   
50Plus   
CDA   
Partij van de Toekomst   
PVV   
ChristenUnie   
Nederland Lokaal   
D66   
Liberaal Democratische Partij   
Democratisch Politiek Keerpunt   
SGP   
Libertarische Partij   
SOPN   
Anti Europa Partij   
VVD   

On 7 items you agree with VVD 

Didn't weight.

[minionofmidas]

Grey Panthers / Greys / whatever name they go by right now here in Germany have been thus since their origins as purely a pressure group back in the 70s.

The original name speaks for itself, I suppose.

[minionofmidas]

Lol, just noticed this gem from the middle of my result...

PVV   
ChristenUnie   
Nederland Lokaal   
D66   

I'd noticed D66 was very low the first time, but I overlooked just HOW low.

[minionofmidas]

That SP map is bizarre.



Marijnissen is from the westernmost dark red place and Roemer is from the cluster of five, but still... can't find anything implying a hard left tradition in the area.

[minionofmidas]

So basically a is-that-way-because-it-got-that-way thing. With an added "there was an opening for a leftwing opposition party here" angle.

It is of course quite hilarious to remember the former KVP results in the south and then look at the CDA map.