The moderates slogan "New worker party" is totally a scam.. The moderates are the same as before, a party for the rich. they just know how to "sell" nowadays. To bad alot of people believed in their scam.
Atleast the greens continue to increase! =)
Well, to be fair the Soc Dems are also the same as always, more's the pity...
The govt Alliance is getting approval for 1) actually doing a good job with the national economy, and the country being wealthy and successful has always a huge Swedish feel-good factor, which the Soc Dem set themselves up as the single guaranteers of for decades. The govt is now getting cred for steering Sweden clear also in a huge global economic slump, not just in fair weather sailing, something hitherto only the Soc Dems could credibly claim —
and 2) they are being very, very careful in not suddenly turning Sweden onto something new that might make too many people at the same time stop recognising their country. Everyone's bunching up in the political middle. Even the Red-Greens came to approve of 90% of the incumbent govt's tax-cuts during the election process, and they did so out of stark necessity, since it could be shown in polling that too many voters approved. If they would come out too strongly against those, they would have been hurt. Of course, by and large they got snubbed by the voters anyway, so it might not have mattered.
It also helped them that the Soc Dems have been pitiful in their inability to renew themselves, making the job of facing them for the incumbent alliance alot less complicated.
Of course, in the end a continued lib-cons govt will end up changing Sweden in some ways. Otoh change is inevitable anyway, it always is, which is why Sweden can't be frozen in some kind of mythical 1950's boom, though it's somehow what the Swedish Dems seem to be channeling, and not a few voters are hankering for.
Question is really what the political alternatives are. The Green's vision for the future is potentially much more radical, and thus potentially disturbing, for a great many voters than anything the present govt. have proposed. And as said, apart from the Soc Dem traditional attitude of having a naturally ordained destiny to run the country, never mind which way it's headed, it's actually a bit unclear what their future might hold, except also more-of-same.
To give props to the prime minister Reinfeldt he already before winning the first 2006 elections had proven himself to have at least the right kind of political vision and roughness necessary to purge the upper echelons of his part of all the ideologically motivated neoliberal economy enthusiasts in favour of pragmatists. Thus removing the best arguments ever against his party from the other side of the political spectrum.
Really, I think the Soc Dems might have lost the initiative to really reform already in the early 90's. The more time goes, the more respect I'm getting for former Soc Dem PM Ingvar Carlson as a visionary politician (aka "the Foot"). Mona Sahlin was his crown princess, and if that absurd "Toblerone Affair" hadn't gutted her and cleared the way for Göran Persson as Soc Dem leader (now there's a young man born old, eyes firmly fixed on the past, making all the traditionalist proper Soc Dem noises), it would have been her already back then. And then she would have been flanked by Anna Lind and Margot Wallström. If that trio had come into the position of running the Soc Dem party 15 years ago, I doubt there would have been much of a chance to successfully challenge it. Except of course large parts of the Social Democratic movement actively resisted that kind of change, and apparently still does...
Sweden's turned bigoted. I'm ashamed. 
