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« Reply #500 on: June 06, 2012, 12:30:19 PM »
« edited: June 07, 2012, 11:58:29 AM by Comrade Sibboleth »

@Comrade Sibboleth: Berlin-Treptow-Köpenick is the constituency, Gregor Gysi won twice with much more personal votes than votes for the Left Party list. As long as Gysi stands there, it should be safe.

Oh, sure, sure. I was originally going to mention him. But it's not quite in the automatic category, at least in the event of their vote halving or whatever.
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« Reply #501 on: June 07, 2012, 04:05:42 AM »

Remember that the SPD held that constituency in 94, 98 and 02 as well.
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« Reply #502 on: June 16, 2012, 12:01:50 AM »

New Forschungsgruppe Wahlen poll shows the SPD at the highest level in 2 years:

34% CDU/CSU
32% SPD
13% Greens
  7% Pirates
  5% Left
  5% FDP
  4% Others

http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/index.htm
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« Reply #503 on: June 16, 2012, 04:08:51 AM »

When will we see the FDP overtake Die Linke again?
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« Reply #504 on: June 16, 2012, 04:43:21 PM »

When will we see the FDP overtake Die Linke again?
Hopefully never. I wonder when will more East Germans will vote for Linke.
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« Reply #505 on: June 16, 2012, 04:45:20 PM »

New Forschungsgruppe Wahlen poll shows the SPD at the highest level in 2 years:

34% CDU/CSU
32% SPD
13% Greens
  7% Pirates
  5% Left
  5% FDP
  4% Others

http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/index.htm

Edging closer to a red-green majority as well.
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« Reply #506 on: June 17, 2012, 01:07:21 AM »

Kraft is also preferred as Chancellor to Merkel now, according to a new poll.  43% said they preferred Kraft.  34% preferred Merkel.  Oh boy, I hope this trend lasts!

Hanneloremomentum! 
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« Reply #507 on: June 17, 2012, 01:09:20 AM »

Kraft is also preferred as Chancellor to Merkel now, according to a new poll.  43% said they preferred Kraft.  34% preferred Merkel.  Oh boy, I hope this trend lasts!

Hanneloremomentum! 

In the very unlikely event that she runs for the SPD-frontrunner post next year, who would follow her in NRW as SPD leader ?
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« Reply #508 on: June 17, 2012, 03:24:37 AM »

That poll is actually a month old.
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« Reply #509 on: June 17, 2012, 09:18:42 AM »

Oh.  The post was near the top if you check "Kraft Merkel" in Google news.  I just assumed it was new.  But I just checked it, and I guess you're right. 
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« Reply #510 on: June 17, 2012, 09:28:17 AM »

Oh.  The post was near the top if you check "Kraft Merkel" in Google news.  I just assumed it was new.  But I just checked it, and I guess you're right. 

It's from June 15th according to Wikipedia
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« Reply #511 on: June 20, 2012, 07:24:05 AM »

Kraft is also preferred as Chancellor to Merkel now, according to a new poll.  43% said they preferred Kraft.  34% preferred Merkel.  Oh boy, I hope this trend lasts!

Hanneloremomentum! 

In the very unlikely event that she runs for the SPD-frontrunner post next year, who would follow her in NRW as SPD leader ?

I would guess Ralf Jäger minister of the interior. He seems quite established.
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« Reply #512 on: June 20, 2012, 07:34:46 AM »

There is a first projection for the constituencies in Lower Saxony.

http://www.election.de/cgi-bin/content.pl?url=/img/poll/ns_wp_120617.html

Looking good!
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« Reply #513 on: July 01, 2012, 01:11:41 PM »

Okay, I've got another random question.  What are Kraft's positions on Agenda 2010 and the Harz laws?
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« Reply #514 on: July 01, 2012, 04:07:40 PM »

Okay, I've got another random question.  What are Kraft's positions on Agenda 2010 and the Harz laws?

Support in principle, but needs some corrections.

A fairly standard post-Schröder SPD position.
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« Reply #515 on: July 01, 2012, 08:53:45 PM »
« Edited: July 01, 2012, 10:16:55 PM by Peternerdman »

Okay, I've got another random question.  What are Kraft's positions on Agenda 2010 and the Harz laws?

Support in principle, but needs some corrections.

A fairly standard post-Schröder SPD position.
What kind of corrections?  And what does "in principle" mean?  Is it that she thinks that the bulk of the "reforms" were good, or more of a general "we support fiscal responsibility, but this was the wrong way to go about it" type of thing?  
Willy Brandt would be horrified to see what has become of the SPD.  
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« Reply #516 on: July 07, 2012, 12:03:11 AM »

Merkel approval rating climbs to 66%:

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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-06/merkel-approval-rises-to-highest-since-2009-in-post-summit-poll
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« Reply #517 on: July 11, 2012, 10:24:46 AM »

http://newsticker.sueddeutsche.de/list/id/1335970

So the SPD is ahead of the CDU in terms of membership again...
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« Reply #518 on: July 11, 2012, 12:30:41 PM »

In case someone still cares about the BaWü elections of 2011... the American legal tradition equivalent of the newest development would probably be "Stefan Mappus indicted" for his role in the EnBW purchase.
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« Reply #519 on: July 19, 2012, 01:17:39 AM »

Latest Niedersachsen poll (YouGov/Bild):

35% SPD
31% CDU
14% Greens
  7% Pirates
  5% Left
  4% FDP
  4% Others

49-43 majority for SPD/Greens.

http://www.rp-online.de/politik/deutschland/rot-gruen-liegt-in-niedersachsen-klar-vorn-1.2915029
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« Reply #520 on: July 22, 2012, 07:19:27 AM »

A new projection for the seats in Lower Saxony:

http://www.election.de/cgi-bin/content.pl?url=/img/poll/ns_wp_120719.html
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« Reply #521 on: July 25, 2012, 10:09:40 AM »

So, as expected by all who can and did read (read the 2008 court verdict and the new election law, that is), a number which does not include many government politicians or any political journalists, Angela Merkel's election law is even more unconstitutional than the old one.

The court did its utmost to save her face - it did not octroy a new election law of its own making (though it said it would do so if there's no new law by spring 03) and it did not rule Überhangmandate unconstitutional per se - but because the journos understand nothing of the matter and did not expect the verdict, they are failing to notice that. Unanimous verdict btw.
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« Reply #522 on: July 27, 2012, 07:02:58 AM »

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Well, as of now, where "internal" Überhangmandate are possible, there is negative vote weight. Of course the mode of seat allocation could be changed to fix seat contingents per federal state (as in Spain or Finland for example). But this would not be a voting system not proportional as a whole, as the Constitutional Court demanded.

And if half of the seats should be given to the winners of single seat constituencies, as is the case since 1949, there would not be any possibility of compensation for the Überhangmandate. But the court demanded that 15 is the constitutional limit.

And there would be one argument less for the five percent threshold.

So maybe this easiest way to get rid of the negative vote weight, is not possible by constitutional restrictions and political opportunity.
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« Reply #523 on: July 27, 2012, 05:44:31 PM »

So, as expected by all who can and did read (read the 2008 court verdict and the new election law, that is), a number which does not include many government politicians or any political journalists, Angela Merkel's election law is even more unconstitutional than the old one.

The court did its utmost to save her face - it did not octroy a new election law of its own making (though it said it would do so if there's no new law by spring 03) and it did not rule Überhangmandate unconstitutional per se - but because the journos understand nothing of the matter and did not expect the verdict, they are failing to notice that. Unanimous verdict btw.

octroy  Huh
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« Reply #524 on: July 28, 2012, 05:46:09 AM »

It's not my fault English didn't borrow quite all latino-franco-internationalese terms in existence, Jim. Grin

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oktroyieren
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