Norway local elections: 'Breivik party' suffers

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14895052

The anti-immigrant Progress Party once favoured by right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik has lost a third of its vote in local elections in Norway.

Mr Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bomb and gun massacre seven weeks ago, was once a member of the party.

With nearly all votes counted, the opposition Conservatives had the biggest gains, taking 28% compared to 19% in 2007.

The governing Labour Party - targeted by Mr Breivik - made smaller gains.

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1. The Progress Party seems to be sort of the Norwegian equivalent of

the Teabaggers, though maybe not quite as vicious and stupid. Breivik quit the party, probably because they weren't crazy enough for him.

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2. Another way Norway is different from the U.S.

With a fully functioning Fox News network in the U.S., the Breivik Party would have gained seats in parliamentary election (if we had a U.S. parliament). Because the "Progress Party" would have gotten several weeks of fluffing about what a bunch of men of action they are, not willing to let the country go down the tubes because of namby-pamby libruls. In Norway, such a party actually loses favor with voters. Imagine that!