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==Polling==
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After the election in September 2006, the Alliance slipped well behind the opposition in the polls. A [[Sifo]] poll conducted in February 2008 showed the opposition leading the Alliance by 19.4%. However, this lead steadily eroded during the second half of the Alliance's term, despite the opposition's uniting in the [[Red-Greens (Sweden)|Red-Green co-operation]] in December 2008.
[[File:Valaaffischer Stockholm 2010.jpg|thumb|200px|Campaign posters in Stockholm]]
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''[[The Irish Times]]'' saw the rise of the SD as sending "ripples of shock not only through the country but through European politics," and asked "Is this finally it for the 'Swedish model'" that has been represented as a "meld of liberal values, high taxes, outstanding childcare and welfare that made the country the poster boy for European social democracy?" The Social Democrats' failure reflected the party's inability to adapt, an increasingly technocratic profile, a failure to address immigration concerns, as well as Reinfeldt's success in managing the economy. The results draws parallels with a larger decline of European left parties.<ref name="irishtimes">{{Cite web|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0922/1224279430777.html |title=Sweden's right - The Irish Times - Wed, Sep 22, 2010 |work=The Irish Times|date=22 September 2010 |accessdate=26 September 2010}}</ref> An article in ''[[Al Jazeera English]]'' asked if [[Western world|Western]] political dynamics were changing following the Swedish and [[2010 United States elections|United States]] elections. The article said that predictions after the election indicated "an entirely new political landscape" and "the beginning of an era of sharper political division in Sweden." It asked if the similar results "reflect rather an underlying continuity in the generation-long evolution of Euro-American politics towards a fully neoliberalised system" and that Sweden seemed to be "moving towards an outdated model." It also said that, while social policies were similarly moving to the right, economic policies were poles apart, with the emergence of far-right parties in Sweden and Denmark still supporting the [[welfare]] state and the American parties remaining on the economic right-wing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/2010/11/20101115144931444264.html|title=Nowhere left to run|first=Mark|last=LeVine|website=english.aljazeera.net|accessdate=8 April 2018}}</ref>
The case of Annika Holmqvist, a seriously ill 55-year-old woman who had her sickness benefits withdrawn and was requested to seek work, allegedly due to the Alliance's reforms of Sweden's social security system, gave the opposition a late boost in its campaign. ''[[The Local]]'' thinks it might have deprived the Alliance of an overall majority. Holmqvist's daughter wrote about her case in a [[web log]] post that gained publicity and became a hot topic in the debates. In spite of promises of a solution, after the election it was decided Holmqvist will lose her ''illness''{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}} benefits.<ref>[http://www.thelocal.se/29108/20100919/ Reinfeldt rocked by 'chlamydia letter'], The Local, 19 September 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.thelocal.se/29150/20100921/ 'Chlamydia letter' blogger deprived of benefits], The Local, 21 September 2010.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americablog.com/2010/09/how-blog-post-is-changing-swedish.html|title=How a young woman's blog post is changing the Swedish elections |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100919195249/http://www.americablog.com/2010/09/how-blog-post-is-changing-swedish.html |archive-date=19 September 2010 |author=
The Moderate Party was still seen as one of the big winners of the election because of its "well-executed campaign" that emphasised Sweden's "remarkable political and economic stability in a turbulent world" after Sweden weathered the [[2008 recession|recession]]; despite mass unemployment, the economic growth in 2010 was the highest in Western Europe.<ref name="the local"/>
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