Archive for April 17th, 2009
Without Comparison
Today, Danish media brought a joyous message for Lars Løkke Rasmussen: He is suddenly astonishingly popular, the Liberals have gained support and the government supported by the Danish People’s Party has a projected majority over the Social Democrats and their allies.1
Does this ring a bell? An old party leader is quietly (well, relatively quietly) replaced, the new suddenly gets very popular and there is a spike in support for the party.
Ah, yes: The Conservatives and Lene Espersen.
Journalists have short memories.
- Not that TV2 bothers to publish a table with the detailed results [↩]
A Win-Win Situation
It may be hard to imagine but there are countries where politics is even more weird than in Denmark. Case in point today is the US where Texas governor Rick Perry threatened with seceding from the union because of tax and economic policies (and probably also because Republicans think that B. Obama is a Marxist Muslim Fundamentalist).
Nate Silver did the maths and showed us that a possible Texan secession looks strikingly as one of those otherwise elusive win-win situation.
Except for the Republicans in the rest of the US, that is.