Thread: Obama won re election

Originally Posted by Birnando

On a US centric board like SRP, it would seem natural to me that the US elections are a bit more interesting.
As you stated yourself, you really don't care all that much about other nations, unless you actually live there.
So, not much point in discussions on other countries when the participants really only care about the US, no?

Guess you guys should start more threads


BTW Birnando I saw the the Progress Party that is popular as being anti-immigration lost about 6 percentage points in the last cycle... How is that going to effect the laws in the next 3 years ????

Also doesn't that pretty much make it a 2 party system for Norway between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party ??

Originally Posted by gssixgun

BTW Birnando I saw the the Progress Party that is popular as being anti-immigration lost about 6 percentage points in the last cycle... How is that going to effect the laws in the next 3 years ????

Also doesn't that pretty much make it a 2 party system for Norway between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party ??

Yes, you are right, they have lost a fair bit of potential voters lately.
I think it is a case of not being the one setting the agenda.

The conservatives seems to be the one doing that on that side of the political spectrum these days.

Our election is one year away, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out for sure.

As to a two-party system per se, that would be a bit of a simplification to say we have a battle of those two parties only, but the main opponents are, as you said, the conservatives vs the labour party.
The difference is that none of them are remotely close to majority in the Parliament and relies heavily on support from other parties on their side of the whole Left/Right spectrum.

Today, the Labour party is the bigger part of our current 3-party Government.
The other 2 are the Socialistic left and a centrum oriented party that focuses on rural Norway.
From the looks of it, our conservative party will take power next year, but only with the support and participation of 2 or 3 more parties of the right wing. (The Christian Democrats and the Progress party. Possibly also a party called The Left, who are based pretty much in the centre of the spectrum)

To further complicate matters, some of the parties close to the centrum of the political spectrum can, and have, joined governments form both sides.
Messy stuff, I know

Originally Posted by Birnando

Yes, you are right, they have lost a fair bit of potential voters lately.
I think it is a case of not being the one setting the agenda.

The conservatives seems to be the one doing that on that side of the political spectrum these days.

Our election is one year away, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out for sure.

As to a two-party system per se, that would be a bit of a simplification to say we have a battle of those two parties only, but the main opponents are, as you said, the conservatives vs the labour party.
The difference is that none of them are remotely close to majority in the Parliament and relies heavily on support from other parties on their side of the whole Left/Right spectrum.

Today, the Labour party is the bigger part of our current 3-party Government.
The other 2 are the Socialistic left and a centrum oriented party that focuses on rural Norway.
From the looks of it, our conservative party will take power next year, but only with the support and participation of 2 or 3 more parties of the right wing. (The Christian Democrats and the Progress party. Possibly also a party called The Left, who are based pretty much in the centre of the spectrum)

To further complicate matters, some of the parties close to the centrum of the political spectrum can, and have, joined governments form both sides.
Messy stuff, I know

The main point here as I see it is that all your parties MUST work and deal to achive the greater good,,

For the US all politics are centered around staying in politics...