GERMAN ELECTION (Running Thread): Schroeder by a Nosehair

Die Welt- translated ^ | 9/22/02 | Die Welt

[eabinga]

How do you say "dangling chad" in German?

Beats me, up until the florida elections, I thought Chad was a country in africa.

[tomahawk]

Computer projections showing 37.1 SPD
39.1 CDU
9.4 Greens
7.2 FDP

SPD-Greens (Red/Green) 47.5
CDU/FDP (moderates) 46.3

[Lessismore]

http://dw-world.de/english/0,3367,6591_A_641614_1_A,00.html

Exit Poll Shows Conservative Lead in German Election

An exit poll Sunday showed Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber with a slight lead over Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats.

The first exit poll of voters taken in Germany on Sunday showed the conservative Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union leading Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats by 2 percentage points.

The first exit poll of German voters on Sunday showed a slight lead for the country’s conservative opposition and its candidate, Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber.

In its prognosis, the pollster Infratest-Dimap predicted the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union would win 39 percent of the vote. The exit poll showed Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s party, the Social Democrats, winning 37 percent, the Greens gaining 9.5 percent of the seats in Germany’s parliament and the liberal Free Democrats winning 7 percent.

Participation in Sunday’s election among Germany’s 61.2 million eligible voters was markedly lower this year than during the last election in 1998. According to Federal Elections Director Johann Hahlen, only 43 percent of the country’s voters had made it to their local polling stations by 2 p.m., just a few hours before they were set to close.

[eabinga]

Union ist gaining!!

[Diddle E. Squat]

From the map it looks like reunification is what has sunk Germany into socialist dominance. No?

[eabinga]

Best link on the net for results: http://wahl.tagesschau.de/flash/wahlflash.html

Same as the ones they are showing on TV...

[Dog]

Can someone please give us an update......I just got in..

[eabinga]

From the map it looks like reunification is what has sunk Germany into socialist dominance. No?

Right you are...

[RightWhale]

This is the most amazing automatic translation. German used to seem close to English, but now it seems to be from another planet.

[tomahawk]

Deutsche Welle is saying the Red-Green (puke) coalition looks likely to return to power, showing that there is an anti-U.S. (they call it "anti-war") majority there.

If the Germans will not let us use our bases in Germany to defend the U.S., then we should pull our bases out.

[Lessismore]

In a Die Welt popup, the leader of the CSU seems to say that if the Union gets the largest vote, that they have first chance to form a coalition and therefore a government.

Goppel: "against us none" governs

CSU Secretary-General Thomas Goppel excluded a government without the union after the first computer forecasts. CDU/CSU are clearly strongest parliamentary group. Gegen us governs none, said Goppel in a first statement. Red-green with this election result resigned. With whom the union will govern, must are waiting.

[tomahawk]

That's a great link. Thanks!

[eabinga]

Can someone please give us an update......I just got in..

Too close to call....

Stoiber speaking now....Stoiber very pleased, standing ovation...

[Dog]

I clicked that link .......who is who....I need a primer.

[Dog]

That is a great link BTW ...thank you for doing this for all of us..

[eabinga]

Stoiber in the lead now!

301 seats for Union + FDP
297 for SPD and greens

[tomahawk]

CDU/CSU are the good guys. FDP is their ally. SPD are socialists. Greens (freaks) are their ally.

[Husker24]

15.00 o'clock?........huh

[Dog]

Go Stroiber!!!!!

[eabinga]

I clicked that link .......who is who....I need a primer

Hochrechnung = Prognosis
Gewinn/Verlust = win/loss
Sitze = Seats
Ostdeutschland = east germany
Westdeutschland = west germany
Vergleich SPD/CDU = comparison SPD/CDU
Vergleich Grüne/FDP = comparison green/FDP

CDU/CSU Union and FPD are the good guys
SPD, GRÜN and PDS are the bad guys