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Source for the far right to far left statistic is Insa Consulere, one of the large public opinion institutes. These companies are so reliable that the live resu

Source for the far right to far left statistic is Insa Consulere, one of the large public opinion institutes. These companies are so reliable that the live results on election days used to announce a winner on TV are actually from their analyses at polling stations throughout the day, not from government institutions. If the figure should change it's because these people have changed their mind afterwards, but as it stands right now, a lot of far right voters consider it a better alternative. Percentage wise, out of all parties, the far right loses the most to this new far left party. This was already predicted before any statistics were in because they just want to flip the bird to established parties. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/sahra-wagenknecht-partei-bsw-so-wuerde-sie-laut-insa-umfrage-jetzt-abschneiden-li.2153488 https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/sahra-wagenknecht-parte... The voter movement from center left to far right is from the official election results from a few weeks ago.

spondylosaurus 3y ago
Huh, interesting. (And thanks for the link!) I wouldn't foresee American voting blocs behaving like that in a million years, but German voters apparently have it in them.
- schleck8 3y ago
  That's because politics in the US isn't pluralistic but a static duopoly that's treated like a team sport by a lot of voters. In Germany the opposing player to the far right is the Greens for example because the two parties are both benefiting from the cosmopolitism vs communitarism cleavage that drives a lot of political debate. Voters will hardly switch between these two parties specifically. But if you are in a de-facto two party system where the opposing party is at the opposite end of each cleavage then you'll barely have any voter movement. It's entrenched this way for decades Most democracies are pluralistic with more parties which is why the Germany anecdote makes more sense than the US one

spondylosaurus 3y ago

Huh, interesting. (And thanks for the link!) I wouldn't foresee American voting blocs behaving like that in a million years, but German voters apparently have it in them.

schleck8 3y ago
That's because politics in the US isn't pluralistic but a static duopoly that's treated like a team sport by a lot of voters. In Germany the opposing player to the far right is the Greens for example because the two parties are both benefiting from the cosmopolitism vs communitarism cleavage that drives a lot of political debate. Voters will hardly switch between these two parties specifically. But if you are in a de-facto two party system where the opposing party is at the opposite end of each cleavage then you'll barely have any voter movement. It's entrenched this way for decades Most democracies are pluralistic with more parties which is why the Germany anecdote makes more sense than the US one