3 state elections in Germany in September

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Müller wins easily methinks...
How good are the Neo-Nazi's chances in the Eastern states?

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Bad news: The NPD is the only one of the more established far right parties (NPD, REP, DVU) to run. There's one thing called Deutsche Gemeinschaft für Gerechtigkeit that sounds far-right to me by their name.

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If the PDS come first in Brandenburg, it'll probably make the news over here (beyond a minor note on the 2nd page of "European News" in the Indie...)

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Turnout seems to be very low.
According to a sample only 28% had voted by 2 pm, as opposed to 38% at the last state election and 30% at the European elections.

Who d'yi think that helps?

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Turnout's round about 56%. That's abysmal.

SPD voters staying at home because of the economic reforms?

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SPD voters staying at home because of the economic reforms?

Yes, that would be one of the reasons.

Aditionally, the victory of the CDU was predicted by every single opinion poll. So, it was not a very close race. I think many voters simply stayed home, because the winner was clear from the beginning.

Yeah... interesting to note that the CDU vote stayed fairly steady from '99.

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All true. Add to that a low turnout, and you have problems... kinda like Burnley over here

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I think they (or some other scary Nazi party) will win seats...

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Al: The CDU vote staying more or less put? Hardly.
5 years ago, 45,5% on a 70% turnout = about 32% of the electorate.
Now, 47,5% on a 55,5% turnout = just over 25% of the electorate. Granted, a lot of that is attributable to less-than-diehard CDU supporters staying home, or rather going out into the country, because Müller's win wasn't seen as in doubt and the weather was so fine, but still...

I'd only looked at the %'s when I wrote that... sorry for the confusion.

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Those that believe that (more or less) these reforms are needed, they vote CDU because that's what they've always voted...
Those who used to vote SPD, or who still do, are unhappy with these reforms. They don't go and vote CDU. They just don't go and vote.

Sounds like by-elections/local elections in the late '70's over here actually... replace "SPD" with "Labour", "CDU" with "Tories" and "NPD" with "National Front"...

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NPD at 9%? ickky...
Headline on BBCNews Homepage: "German far right makes poll gains".
It's one of the top three stories...

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NPD at 9%? ickky...
Headline on BBCNews Homepage: "German far right makes poll gains".
It's one of the top three stories...

NPD 9,2% (Baaaaaaaaaaaaad)

I prefer: Scary