La S'chinteia Volume VII

[Ian Plätschisch]

Volume VII is out!
And has been posted here immediately to encourage sign-ups on Witt XIV!

Do you want to have the next volume of La S'chinteia sent straight to your inbox a day early? Click here to subscribe!

[Ian Plätschisch]

Heh, I can't post it here because the file it too big. Can this be changed?

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Likely story!  We're wise to your scheme to make us subscribe.

[Sir Lüc]

Heh, I can't post it here because the file it too big. Can this be changed?

Done, I have removed all limits on attachments. This is not ideal (I wanted at least a 8 MB cap) but we'll have to make do because SMF doesn't want to play ball with anything else than its defaults (or no limits at all).

Edit: ...or not? Apparently there *is* an 8 MB cap after all. Oh well, SMF works in mysterious ways, but at least it works.

[Ian Plätschisch]

Thank you, it has been posted.

[Miestră Schivă, UrN]

The analysis of the election results would be more interesting if it diverged from the maths a little bit to questioning why the large surprises happened. The two "random factors" would IMHO be: (a) a truly sterling GOTV effort from the PNP; (b) the entire Ventrútx family neglecting to vote.

[GV]

I hope JP and his family are all-right.  Something odd would have had to have happened for them to have not voted en-masse.

[Ian Plätschisch]

The analysis of the election results would be more interesting if it diverged from the maths a little bit to questioning why the large surprises happened. The two "random factors" would IMHO be: (a) a truly sterling GOTV effort from the PNP; (b) the entire Ventrútx family neglecting to vote.

Thanks for the feedback.

I think I did mention Ventrutx's failure to vote, and beyond that I didn't have enough information to make more conclusions. I had heard a little about PNP's GOTV but not enough to write about, and I didn't have time for an interview :P

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

We really need consistent Talossan translations of party names, by the looks.

[Sir Lüc]

The analysis of the election results would be more interesting if it diverged from the maths a little bit to questioning why the large surprises happened. The two "random factors" would IMHO be: (a) a truly sterling GOTV effort from the PNP; (b) the entire Ventrútx family neglecting to vote.

Well, regarding both but mostly (a), PNP was after all a party formed by two former RUMP party leaders. I would not be surprised if some of the more moderate ex-RUMP wing went PNP instead of ZPT (think Castiglha, da Bitour, Txechescu rather than Xhorxh and Holmes). Those that found peculiarism a step too far instead went AMP (Davinescu) or stayed with the ZPT.

[Sir Lüc]

Oh, by the way, the Cjovani article was perhaps the best one to appear in La Sc'hinteia to date.

[Quedéir Castiglhâ]

Well, regarding both but mostly (a), PNP was after all a party formed by two former RUMP party leaders. I would not be surprised if some of the more moderate ex-RUMP wing went PNP instead of ZPT (think Castiglha, da Bitour, Txechescu rather than Xhorxh and Holmes). Those that found peculiarism a step too far instead went AMP (Davinescu) or stayed with the ZPT.

Ooh, who did I vote for???

[Eðo Grischun]

I've not carried out any in-depth analysis and our voters have all decided to stay secret.  I have no concrete idea who is in our voter base.

If I am to hazard a guess though, I would first agree that the more moderate ex-Rump members came over.  The analysis by Luc is probably spot on as to where ex-RUMPers all landed.  The party's right wing core mostly went ZPT while the centrists within RUMP went AMP and PNP.

Second, though, there was a faction of the old Progressives that identified as neo-peculiarists.  I suspect that the PNP managed to get a few votes from that group of people.  If I'm right, then we are probably talking about ex-Progs that did not swing to the Mod-Rads following the Prog split.

As for our GOTV effort.  I'm not really willing to reveal our campaign strategy :P sorry.  We did a lot of work behind the scenes though.  It was an active campaign.