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« on: July 30, 2014, 05:01:09 AM » |
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« edited: July 30, 2014, 05:10:24 AM by Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do »
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Bundestag elections:
1) 2002
2) 2005
3) 2013
4) 2009
2009 and 2013 were boring because they resulted in the governing coalitions everybody had expected from the start. The only twist would have been CDU/SPD (with Merkel at the helm) instead of CDU/FDP (with Merkel at the helm) and vice versa. But those twists didn't even happen. Total snoozefests, also because the SPD also chose to nominate two of the most boring Chancellor-candidates possible in both years.
2002 and 2005 were kind of cool because everybody had expected a CDU/FDP win, but the campaign machine Gerhard Schröder came from behind and narrowly turned it into SPD/Greens and CDU/SPD respectively. (Say what you will, Schröder may have been a mediocre Chancellor, but as a candidate he was simply awesome to watch. Especially when he was the underdog.)
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