Swedish election, 2018: Political Impasse, Löfven loses confidence vote

[ingemann]

In other anti-semitism news Björn Söder, 2nd Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag and former Party Secretary of the Sweden Democrats decided to open his mouth (well, technically his facebook account) and talk a bit about Jews and Swedishness again. After all, it went so well when he did it back in 2014.

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This is the danger with falling in love with a clever debating point, you forget how it can be used against you. This would  have been a excellent anonymous attack on a internet board, it was less smart to use by a senior member of a party, which was original founded by neo-Nazis.

[ingemann]

I actually wonder whether the Greens could lose some potential tactical voting if the media start to focus a lot on Sweden Democrats potentially being the biggest party. Maybe some left-wingers will vote for the Social Democrats just to avoid that (even though it will probably have no effect on government formation whether Sweden Democrats are 1st or 2nd).

Is a Social Democrat-Sweden Democrat government possible? In that case it would have a big effect as it would determine who the next PM of Sweden is.

A far right PM in Sweden would be a huge thing while a centre-left one is no problem. Alternatively, same thing goes with the Moderates.

No a coalition between the Social Democrats and Sweden Democrats are not possible.

[ingemann]

Are YouGov polls reliable in Sweden? They've largely been on the outside by showing, first, SD leading when no one else did and, now, SD leading by such large margins when no one else is.

Honestly no poll is really reliable with the Sweden Democrats, I suspect that YouGov have been able to see that they other polls gave SD too low a vote, when compared to the size of error last election and now they have gone to far to th other side.