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State elections in Germany: can the left come back? | 78 comments (78 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Shafting voters and party base (none / 1)

Adding: there are quite a few people within the FDP who think the party should naturally get 20%. There is some pride involved in this. They don't want to see a party they think should be much bigger wed permanently to a bigger brother.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Mon Jan 28th, 2008 at 07:50:44 AM EST
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Re: Shafting voters and party base (none / 1)

For the Hessen FDP? the money elite vote is an especially strong factor: check where they got spectacularly high votes, it's the rich men's refuges on the slopes of the Taunus mountains (to the Northwest of Frankfurt).

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Jan 28th, 2008 at 08:33:14 AM EST
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Re: Shafting voters and party base (none / 1)

I get that feedback from the federal level. The moneyed elite can live with free daycare and green energy, I would guess. Or are there a lot of industrialists? They will mainly care about taxes.

So, again, if the FDP does not enter the government, but the government does raise some taxes that hurt the rich, the FDP's base may not appreciate it.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Mon Jan 28th, 2008 at 09:14:47 AM EST
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