Sounds like the polls were wrong hmmmm??
Pray for W, Gov Palin and Our Troops
What a mindless and self-indulgent article. First off 30% of Austrians were not surprised by the vote, they were pleased with it. The authors are so stuck in their liberal vision they can’t really understand anything outside of it.
How about this gem: “Some experts suggested the results Sunday reflected a deep-seated discontent with the country’s outgoing governing coalition”
Well DUH! That’s what it means when the current party loses and an upstart wins in pretty much every electoral system, doesn’t it? At this point the voters have woken up to the tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum policies of the two leading parties and rejected them both.
And it continues with more nonsense: “rather than a sign that Austrians were becoming more extremist.” Name calling, always a good place to start with conservatives win an election if you are the AP.
Here, according to the article, are the extreme positions these parties hold: “Both parties advocate an end to immigration and the expulsion of foreigners and asylum seekers who commit crimes.”
It took eight paragraphs until the mandatory “Nazi” reference was inserted. Funny “Austrian Freedom Party” sounds pretty different from “Nationalist Socialist Party”, almost like they would have different philosophy and goals. We are never, in these articles, told what makes those slandered “nazis” , just that the are. The author must be a reporter-in-training. Senior reporters get the Nazi reference into the lede or opening paragraph.
Germany, France and now Austria governed by evil conservatives.
Will the UKless, Spain and Italy be next?