I just spent a good deal of time reading up on the Austrian presidential election. The top vote-getter was a candidate for the Independents -- a feat I never see being accomplished here with the massive party machines we have organized over the centuries. Of the next two candidates, one was a far right political group, and the other was a far right Christian group. It made me kind of glad, I guess, that these two groups only amounted to around 20 percent of the vote when combined and that people would rather vote for someone of no political affiliation than one of these groups filled with hate and malice (at least according to their platforms). Maybe there is still hope...at least in Europe.
I then switched into looking back at our own 2008 election. The New York Times has a great page where you can see county votes, changes in voter ideology, etc....and it's all shaded in either blue or red.
It was very nice to see so much blue that last time.
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