2011 State Elections in Germany

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Is it possible to have a red-red-green coalition where the leader of the SPD becomes premier even though the Left party has slightly more seats because the Green party wants an SPD premier and the SPD and Greens together have more votes and seats than the Left party does?

Presumably, The Left would be very volitile in such a coalition.

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Well done to the SPD and the Greens!

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It seems the Left is becoming more and more irrelevant across Germany.

Not very surprising. The Left is usually disregarded in news coverage, and when something is reported about the party for a change it is about the constant infighting and internal bickering which has been happening there since at least the 2009 election. At least the FDP receives almost constant media coverage, even if it is a very negative one.

The media ignores the Left and the Left is concerned with fighting itself than fighting other political parties most of the time.

In a country where all the parties, except for Die Linke, form government somehow, somewhere, at sometime, with someone, irrelevency catches up to you since neither the SPD or the CDU/CSU (or even the Greens, who apparently, are becoming big players) want anything to do with you.

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A Green chancellor? Eugh.

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Will we see an SDP-Liberal Alliance effect for the Greens and have their support eventually drip back to the main two parties?

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Dumb-dumb question.

"Direct seats" = First past the post seats, right?

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SPD-Greens are within 6 points of the CSU? Wow.

Yes. And if this is happening in Bavaria....God.

The political equivalent to the Grits winning in Alberta? A Tory becoming the First Minister of Scotland?

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Emnid confirms Forsa's Pirate attack:

32% CDU/CSU
28% SPD
17% Greens
  7% Pirates
  7% Left
  4% FDP
  5% Others

No majority for SPD-Greens (45-46).

Vote Pirate, get Angela.

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Two new federal polls:

GMS (24.10.2011):

CDU/CSU 33%
SPD 29%
Grüne 17%
Piraten 7%
Linke 6%
FDP 4%

sonstige 4%

----------------> Red (SPD)/ Green = 46%, other represented parties = 46%


Forsa (26.10.2011):

CDU/CSU 31%
SPD 27%
Grüne 16%
Piraten 10%
Linke 8%
FDP 3%

sonstige 5%

----------------> Red (SPD)/ Green = 43%, other represented parties = 49%

With numbers like this, would a grand coalition be, more or less, a certainty?

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Apart from the general awfulness of their ideals, why are the FDP so hated/unpopular?