NOS: 71 RTL4: 77
IF TNS NIPO has it right, a left coalition with CU is possible.
Where do they fit in on the left? A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
What does this mean? Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
Social structure is the SP issue - and I wholeheartedly support their plans for the health care and education. But they are very conservative when it comes to foreign policy.
SP has not been too vocal on integration; but does stress public safety.
I should think they'd have no trouble in a coalition with the Christian group if they are ideologically what I imagine them to be.
30 seats.
Wow.
Any on the ground thoughts on how this could have happened? Real socialists - not exactly a Dutch tradition, huh?
Recalls '02 in France. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
BTW what are the actual vote percentages? The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake
The actual vote percentages? What do you mean? Do you mean this?
So 16.6 percent for the "hard" left at least, 21.2 if you count the Green Left... Is this unprecedented? The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake
Unprecedented? I think it is. Look at the historic overview chart (wikipedia), here. SP and GroenLinks never bumped above 15%, let alone 20%.
This is why I wrote that the polarisation is far from gone...
Gaullism is right-wing nationalism.
Pro-labor union Democrats have often been very pro-military, pro-interventionist, were supportive of the war in Vietnam, bled support to the GOP in the Reagan years.
Basically right-nationalist, though this is changing. Is this what we're talking about with the SP?
I always thought of DeGaulle's attitude viz. Nato as the original "third way," between "east" and "west" bloc. Not easily pigeon-holed, in terms of FP, as right-wing, at least relative to the FP pursued in Washington.
Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
In other words they are Socialist party conservatives. I do not know if this roughly compares to the dutch example here, but I assume so.
I am waiting the results!!!
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
