[pp.int.general] germany election

[Francisco George]

Don't mess up elections, people don't vote the same for a city council,
regional elections or a federal one the reasoning for the vote is completly
different. In Sweden PiratPartiet is polling at 13% for EU elections, the
double than what they got in EU elections in 2008 and a lot more that they
had in their State elections.


2013/9/24 carlo von lynX <lynX at pirate.my.buttharp.org>

> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 05:28:50PM +0200, Anton Nordenfur wrote:
> > "if you don't count the people who voted first time" is a horribly big
> > "if". Don't overanalyse things and try to find the worst in the results,
>
> considering that at some point in time about a 10% of the german
> population was willing to give some new folks a chance, it really
> doesn't matter if we ended up 0.2% above or below the previous
> result. it's a terrible crash in any case.
>
> i spent some time collecting all the criticism and analysis,
> especially from the press, and looking at possible solutions
> to the mess.. (in german of course:)
>     https://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Wahlen/Bund/2013/Analyse
>
> i'll translate the rough topics:
>
> - promise of digital participation
>   (failure to introduce a permanent assembly)
> - discipline & fairness (measures to stop twitter shitstorms
>   and suboptimal interaction with the press)
> - networking (ability to mobilize supporters and members)
> - handling of the nsa scandal situation (journalists didn't
>   like us bashing the government about it)
> - better legitimation of the board
> - sorting out priorities in political issues (hello cal!)
> - definition of transparency and "social liberal"
> - communicate parliamentary work getting done
> - less folklore
> - strategy concerning faces in public
> - presence on the streets between elections
> - dealing with false news stories
>
> you may find some of them familiar. note that most of these
> points were brought up by *outside observers(!)* writing for
> spiegel, heise and especially golem.
>
> the good news is, there are ideas out there to handle each
> of the problems. all it takes is the political will and
> consensus to take action soon enough to save our europe
> 2014 campaign.
>
> in fact, if we want to get going on a european scale, the
> german pirate party must get back on its feet in no time
> and make positive international press headlines before the
> year is thru.
>
> i firmly believe we can get back on track if the will to
> learn the lessons from the analysis exists. actually we
> could take everyone by surprise.
>
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