Social Democrats reach new poll heights
Published: 15 Apr 12 12:15 CET | Print version
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The Social Democrats' recent dramatic rise in opinion polls has continued with the party climbing a further 3.1 percentage points to 36.8 percent according to the latest voter preference survey.
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Furthermore the gap between the red-green opposition and the government continued to grow, with the lead now coming in at 8.9 percentage points.
The Social Democrats are reported to have claimed voters from all sides of the political spectrum and the party has now climbed above its showing at the last election, while all the governing Alliance parties are trailing below.
New party leader Stefan Löfven has been criticized for maintaining a silence since assuming control of the party, but according to commentator Professor Sören Holmberg, the low-key approach has worked in the party's favour.
"The party's position is not clarified and this allows people to engage in a bout of wishful thinking," he said to the Svenska Dagbladet daily, which published the poll on Sunday.
"In this way Löfven has been clever by not putting his foot down on concrete issues," he told the newspaper.
Aside from the growth of the Social Democrats, other changes are small in relation to Sifo's March poll.
The Green Party dropped one percentage point, with all other changes within this margin.
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Let's not mince words; This translation was butchered. :(
Democracy does not benefit from years of one-party rule, I hope he is able to drag the party, kicking and screaming, into a place where modern Swedes might actually vote it into power at the next election. The rejected stale old policies of tax and spend just won't wash with a savvy, well-educated European electorate anymore.
"Why vote without thinking " .......... good question I'd like to ask to maaaaany people mate!
@Robin Hood,
I know many "well-educated" people that still supports those old policies. In the end of the day, Scandinavia in general is a better place to live that most of other European countries and it was a result of those policies applied for so many years, so they can't be all bad. Many are politicaly and economicaly separating people in educated and uneducated and what we should do is "get the right car for its time and place" (like Toyota says) and get all of us in it.
The only problem for me personaly is that car makes keep making the same old cars (all of them... on the right and on the left) and this road is getting funnier and funnier. So far, I'll stay home playing my guitar till someone comes with a suitable ride.