🇵🇹 Portugal's politics and elections 2.0

[njwes]

The viral moment when, during the debate, Tino de Rans puts rocks in the table he caught from a beach in Peniche:

Ventura's face is priceless. But what was Tino trying to say? Well, that the sea brings rocks of all colours and sizes, just like there are people with different colours and beliefs, but that the sea also brings "people" who want to built walls.

........how do you think the average politicaly-interested Portuguese citizen would react to that? Like I'm sure that there's a big online contingent going "yaaaass kween!" but (at least to me as an American) this sounds incredibly cringey, trite, overly dramatic, and patronizing.

[njwes]

Very interesting to see that they have a portrait of the candidate on the ballot! It'd be fascinating to see if there have been any studies done on what effect that might have--e.g., if candidates with conventionally attractive portraits do better than polling would indicate, or vice-versa, or if "standing out" marginally increases vote share.

Like, as the only woman in a ballot full of men and the only candidate who could reasonably be described as approaching hot, I'd have to think dos Santos Matias gets at least a bit of a boost.

[njwes]

Very interesting to see that they have a portrait of the candidate on the ballot! It'd be fascinating to see if there have been any studies done on what effect that might have--e.g., if candidates with conventionally attractive portraits do better than polling would indicate, or vice-versa, or if "standing out" marginally increases vote share.

Like, as the only woman in a ballot full of men and the only candidate who could reasonably be described as approaching hot, I'd have to think dos Santos Matias gets at least a bit of a boost.

She may look a bit manly, but Ana Gomes is a woman too

Ah oops, I didn't mean any disrespect to her! I just didn't click through to the twitter post with the ballot, and so didn't see her. I actually think she got a good portrait.

Also I'll revise my earlier sentiment re: attractiveness--seeing the entire ballot now, I'll rank João Ferreira along with Marisa Matias in the coveted "borderline-hot-for-a-politician" category 

[njwes]

>20% in Portalegre for Ventura is pretty high!