Politicsweb.png Sober Assessment of the SA Local Government Elections [From a DA point of view] James Myburgh, Editor, Politicsweb, 8 August 2016 The DA's success was not achieved through any kind of magical breakthrough but through hard won, incremental gains. by getting more of its potential supporters registered to vote; by getting their suburban base out to vote on the day en masse; and by making small but significant inroads into the township vote. While the opposition has eroded the ANC's national margin of victory in this election this does not, in and of itself, mean all that much for 2019. All the ANC would need to do to win comfortably next time is to erase the turnout differential and get its usual 11 million or so voters to the polls - something it has achieved, without too much difficulty, in the past. For the full article, which includes very interesting tables, please go to: <http://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-opposition-not-quite-there-yet> http://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-opposition-not-quite-there-yet __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13932 (20160809) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/009301d1f22a%246bae0550%24430a0ff0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
