The matchup thing is presumably more a comment on Koch's personal unpopularity than much else.
57% disapprovals, according to the same poll.
Mind you, the SPD's are worse...
But I still don't see the cosmic justice in the FDP profitting. Come on people, if you don't like the Koch government nor the opposition, vote Far Right or Freie Wähler. Not that foaming-at-the-mouth Koch sidekick Hahn. Whose intransigence last year, of course, gave us these elections...
So you'd rather have people voting for the Nazis than the for FDP, all to punish then for not allowing Ypsilanti to reign supreme?