And thank god we dodged that bullet yesterday! It was a close call though - 50,3% to 49,7% (edited)
1. what percentage of the population turns out to vote in Austria?
2. what level of education is most common in Austria?
I have a hard time believing well educated people turn out in droves to vote for the hard right - I mean sure, there is always a percentage and many fiscally conservative people come from money so they tend to be educated, but as I understand it, that's not what they were voting for in Austria, they were basically voting for social conservatism which is anti-immigration, etc.
Then again that percentage is pretty much what the US faces in every Red vs Blue presidential election in the past half-century.
2. The ORF did a survey, where it turned out, that 76% of people who have an education of a-level or higher voted for the left-wing candiate. Only 38% of the people with education less than a-level voted for the left-wing candiate. [2]
[2] https://www.facebook.com/ZeitimBild/photos/a.381568636877.16...
surprisingly almost the same as the last USA presidential election (numbers are far lower for other kinds of votes)
In the US, middle-class and low-income are NOTORIOUS for voting against themselves, election after election after election, putting right-wing policy in place that basically crushes them slowly. Kansas is a textbook study of the final outcome of such behavior.
I call it "f\\k your neighbor voting" because people don't see it as voting against themselves at all but rather they hate their neighbors so much they think these policies will make others suffer and that makes them satisfied.