2012 Elections in Germany

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Did the FDP get involved in baby-killing scandals or something?

Nothing that showed ever so much integrity as that.

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^^^

Frankly, local by-elections are more interesting.

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Presumably you'll be wanting maps of both rounds?

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If we could have the second round map on the day after the first round is held, that would be particularly nice. -_-

I'll do my best, but you'll have to handle things at the practical end.

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1% is just... ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

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So, politics really make no sense.

Slow learner, bist?

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Results will start coming in what sort of time?

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There shall be a map... I think by this evening? Maybe?

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The general patterns are what they are and so on. But... um... certain details?

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Have a look at the SPD. I don't even know what the hell that is a map of.

Stable working class areas, those RedGreen swingers and suburbs full of ex-working class people Who Have Done Well For Themselves?

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So turkeys do still vote for early Christmases at times.

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Presumably there are personal 'issues' between the Saarland SPD and Saarland Left? Given that the latter are defectors from the former?

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I have much prettier results!

Any idea why it's such a (pretty) blowout?

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If I were a professional politician (God forbid) I wouldn't want to work with that kind of outfit either. A reluctance to work with Obvious Protest Party Is Obvious is not really something to criticise politicians for. But a reluctance to consider that there might be a reason (or even reasons) for such a hilarious blatant protest party to be polling at around a tenth of the electorate, well that would be a slightly different matter.

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That has the potential to be a deeply hilarious election.

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Hahahaha

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This is really, really funny.

Anyways, Nazis are not welcome here so please fyck off, whoever you are.

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Currently doing a map of direct seat winners (with the other stuff coming later). Anyways. Just stumbled across the result in Bonn I. LOL. That's all. LOL.

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Why do SPD have such strong position in the north east?

Traditionally strong for the SPD going back since forever (during the Weimar Republic it was generally better turf for the SPD than the Ruhr), and that would have been because it was a Protestant ('rural') industrial area; the dominant industry was textiles. Protestantism in parts of that area (Lippe, anyway) is also non-Lutheran, which may have been a factor early on or something (or so someone claimed in a journal article that I half-read about two years ago while looking for something else).

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Hard to think of a worse slogan to run on than that...

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(Before anyone asks... yes, the former SED guy is the "moderate" one of the candidates. As it is in fact often the case with the Left Party.)

Of course it is.

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These took a while, but I like to delude myself into thinking that it was worth it.

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The SPD won all the direct seats in Treptow-Köpenick in the 2011 elections, so in the event of a KPD collapse, maybe not quite so safe.

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@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.