**BREAKING** Anti-Islam Deolrable Geert Wilders had unexpectedly poor showing in election

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BREAKING: Netherlands’ main exit poll suggests that anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders had unexpectedly poor showing in election.

[DonaldsRump]

1. Yay! That means Putin was too busy covering up his US shenanigans to influence this one.

[LenaBaby61]

6. Yay! That means Putin was too busy covering up his US shenanigans to influence this one.

Also, wasn't EVERY ballot hand-counted to make sure nothing "funny" happened?

I WISH we could do that in the USA but uh .....

[yeoman6987]

16. These are exit polling

Hand counts will be done tonight/tomorrow.

[Kingofalldems]

17. Oops. Too bad.

Looks like another prediction from you has gone awry, yeoman6987.

[Cha]

20. I like the way you think, DR.. he didn't have time

to hack the Netherlands election.

[TubbersUK]

2. Good news n/t

[Ezior]

3. Trumpists when they see the election results

Trumpists when they see the election results:
https://www.reddit.com/r/the_schulz/comments/5zlyb3/trumpisten_als_sie_die_wahlergebnisse_sehen/

[dalton99a]

4. People came to their senses

[SunSeeker]

5. A well-educated populace is harder for Putin to fool.

Alas, the U.S. is a perfect mark for Putin.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. im gonna bet they learnt some lessons from us about what happens when crazy people get power

[Starry Messenger]

9. +1

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. bet their alt left didn't sabotage the center left candidate either

[Ezior]

15. Not sure about that

The old main center-left party (PvdA) lost lots of seats in this election, going from 38 seats to just 9 seats. At the same time, GroenLinks (it's not radical / far-left, just another left-leaning party) won "bigly".

Of course, it's not a big issue in a parliamentary system with proportional representation since "alt left" parties simply get more seats for every seat the center-left party loses. They could form a coalition and live happily ever after. It just seems that the left side is not that strong even when summing them up, so they can't actually form a left-leaning coalition. (Don't worry, most conservative politicians are not THAT terrible in Europe. Still bad, but really great in comparison to the GOP.)

So this is different to the US, losing some voters to a party with similar ideology / positions is not a big deal, coalitions can fix that.

However, In Germany, the SPD split up some time ago and now we have SPD (center-left) and "Die Linke" (far-left) parties. They often refuse to join forces, unfortunately, since the far-left party now has some communists and generally strange people in it. And the SPD probably is still a little hurt over their split-up. So that's an issue. But not as bad as if we had a electoral system like in the US, where the SPD or "Die Linke" would be unlikely to have a lot of power at all because the left side is now split into 3 parties (SPD, Die Linke, Die Grünen) while the right side is basically just the CDU (and recently an alt right nazi party). So it would be hard for the SPD to win more than a few voting districts. Thank God for the proportional representation.

[gibraltar72]

8. The question

should be are the Dutch that much smarter than us or just better people.

[GliderGuider]

10. The voters have had a while to think about what they've seen in the US. nt

[bullwinkle428]

12. Does Steve King haz a sad?

[Initech]

13. Ha ha!!!!!!

[DonaldsRump]

14. I have to agree...

...after seeing "our" very own buffoon-in-chief, no one in the Netherlands would have voted for anyone like Trump.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. All right

The fascists lost.

[AgadorSparticus]

19. Feel the trump backlash!