Posted on 10/22/2005 6:15:02 AM PDT by A. Pole
WARSAW Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczynski were running neck and neck in public opinion polls Friday as Poland prepared for a presidential runoff on Sunday.
Tusk, the 48-year-old candidate of the business-friendly Civic Platform party, finished three percentage points in front of Kaczynski in the first round of the election two weeks ago and then built up a healthy lead over his conservative rival.
But on Friday, the last day that poll results can be published before the voting, surveys showed that the gap between the two had closed.
One poll by a little-known agency even put the 56-year-old Kaczynski of the conservative Law and Justice party in the lead, albeit with a margin of less than half a percentage point.
Two other surveys gave Tusk leads of four and six points. With the polls' standard margin of error of about three points, that meant the presidential race was wide open.
There is a media blackout on campaign news Saturday. Polling stations are to be open between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday, with first exit polls expected when voting ends and official results due Monday.
A political scientist, Mikolaj Czesnik, said: "Lech Kaczynski is backed by a more traditional electorate, by less well-off voters in the countryside and small towns, who want a social system. Tusk, on the other hand, is backed by the young, better-off and more educated voters, who tend to live in bigger cities."
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I can't stand Jaroslaw, he is a hateful little gnome. Lech is nicer, but too aggresive and nasty for my taste. I will vote for Tusk. Are you a Pole, Mr. A.Pole?
Well after WWII the race would be tighter.... not that kind of race?
Ja przedtem wolalem Tuska. Ale jak sie dowiedzalem ze jest liberalem wole Kaczynskiego.
Wolne zarty. Nie wiesz ze liberal u nas to calkiem co innego niz u was?
Wiem, uzylem tego slowa w znaczeniu uzywanym poza Stanami. Liberal to wyznawca wolnego rynku i panstwa stroza czyli UPRowiec.
Actually I am. You could describe my position as social conservative or paleo-conservative. On issues of market and labor my views are more or less in sync with the traditional Christian doctrine as expressed by the papal encyclicals. I supported Solidarity and not Bagsik or Khodorkovsky.
I think that Kaczynski is closer to Buchanan than Tusk.
What about Donald Dusk?
To make you laugh, there is one guy on Polish forums who does not like brothers Kaczynski's and uses the following tagline:
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, zwei Kaczoren!" (Kaczor - he-duck or drake in Polish)
That's true. And that's why I won't vote for him. This is not the place for the discussion on the basic economics, but if you take JPII's teaching seriously you should read Michael Novak's books and articles. And in Polish you should read: profs. Legutko and Kuninski from UJ. Catholic teaching on economy is perfectly in accordance with free market.
Oh yes I saw this on Gazeta.pl (I'm a forum addict), was it? But Kaczor a "drake" in Polish?? WHAT are you talking about, excuse me???
OOOOOps, I just looked up my dictionary. I confused drake with dragon. sorry.
JPII and other popes condemned the free market doctrine. Michael Novak is wrong.
And in Polish you should read: profs. Legutko and Kuninski from UJ. Catholic teaching on economy is perfectly in accordance with free market.
This is not true. Roman Catholic Church repeatedly condemned the twin errors of socialism and liberalism (Communism and Freemarketeerism).
Do not take my word, here are the proofs:
RERUM NOVARUM - ON CAPITAL AND LABOR
Centesimus Annus - Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
he-duck/male duck/drake [in English] = kaczor in Polish.
Papież i kapitalizm
The text above comes from the ultra-Catholic Polish website Opoka. I understand that you can interpret Church's teaching in many different ways, but you must always have in mind that Catholic socio-economic order must be in accordance with the truth. I assume that in this case "truth" means truth, i.e. this economic theory which has proven to be more in accordance with facts. And which theory is more in accordance wih facts than that of F.Hayek and M.Friedmann?
Kudos to our friends and allies in Poland as they prepare to vote Sunday.
When will we get results or exit polls? I've been up all night and need to get some sleep but will stay up if they are coming soon.
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