Lowest support for (SPD+CDU+CSU) ever!

[Colin]

Holy sh**t!

WOO HOO GO FDP!

14% my God. Is there any reason for that Lewis? The only one I can think of is that they are getting CDU/CSU members who are disaffected with the grand coalition going to the only other right-wing party in the opposition and possibly some voters who see them as the leaders of the opposition and thus vote for them as the main opposition party.

I guess the same could go for why the Greens have 12% as well.

Die Linke's Partei seems to be back to where it started at the beginning of the 2006 campaign.

Well this would be a very interesting result. The problem is this probably has no actual chance of happening.

[Colin]

What was the amount of undecideds/don't knows? Do you have a link to the poll?

[Colin]

I wish they would give vote totals for the "other parties" just to see what there support is.

[Colin]

I wish they would give vote totals for the "other parties" just to see what there support is.

Do you really want to know how much the Grey Panthers (a senior citizen's party) or the Animal Rights Party would get at the moment?

Usually, "other parties" aren't seperately listed unless they seem to have a realistic chance of passing the 5% threshold. This means that an individual party has to be polled at at least 3 or 4%. Take the current state election campaign in Mecklenburg for example. The NPD didn't appear in the polls until they were at 3 or 4%. Since then, there appeared in almost every poll.

However, it's safe too assume that right-wing extremist parties are making up a relatively large portion of that 7%... maybe in the range of 2 or 3%.

Yes I would actually. The Grey Panthers are vitally important to German politics.

I was mostly concerned with the numbers that the Republicans and the NPD are getting since the number, 7%, is higher than it usually is, it's usually around 4-5%.

[Colin]

CDU/CDU drops below 30% the first time since 2000.

SPD 30%
CDU/CSU 29%
FDP 15%
Left.PDS 10%
Greens 9%
Other parties 7%

(Forsa, 09/25)

15% for the FDP? Very nice.

Please tell me that the NPD does not represent 72% of the "other parties" total. If they do they would get in the Bundestag.

I doubt it though that has been my constant fear that the Grand Coalition will lead to higher support for both Die Linke and the much scarier NDP.