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Germans flock to vote in "Super Sunday" test
Reuters ^ | 13 March 2016 | Paul Carrel, Joseph Nasr

Posted on 03/13/2016 9:37:22 AM PDT by Lorianne

Germans turned out in force to vote in three state elections on Sunday, with the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party looking to profit from popular angst about Chancellor Angela Merkel's welcome of more than a million migrants.

The election is the biggest test year of the German public response to the influx, totaling more than a million last year alone and showing no sign of halting, of refugees and other migrants from the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.

Merkel, who says Germany is a rich enough country to host desperate people and has a moral obligation to shelter those in danger, has staked her reputation on her management of the unprecedented influx, which has come to define her leadership.

Her conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) have been losing support to the AfD, which has profited from the growing unease.

A poor CDU performance would weaken Merkel just as she tries to push through a deal to resolve the crisis in EU negotiations with Turkey, the country from which most migrants depart by sea to reach the EU through Greece.

The AfD argues that Germans have been denied a choice over a policy that could define their country for generations, with Merkel ruling in a "grand coalition" that includes her party's Socialist rivals.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afd; cdu; csu; dhimmitude; eurabia; eussr; hijrah; merkel; npd; rapefugees; rop; supersonntag
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To: Farmer Dean

This Sunday election (13th) was in 3 states only (Pfalz, Sachsen, and Baden-Wurttemberg).

Last Sundays city/county election that occurred....did involve Hessen. Most towns had a CDU and SPD split....but both lost votes over the last election, and the anti-immigration party (AfD) carried around 10-percent if you count individual party races in each town.

I’d say roughly 20-percent of the nation are fed up and frustrated with the immigrant policy. Another 20-percent are asking questions...especially over the cost factor. The pro-immigrant side is maybe 30-percent at best, and everyone else neutral.


21 posted on 03/13/2016 11:04:35 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

Three states, three VERY different outcomes...(other than the Afd getting some solid votes in all three). Greens strongest party in Baden-Wuerttemberg, almost don’t make the 5% cut in neighboring Rhineland-Palatine?


22 posted on 03/13/2016 11:09:46 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: pepsionice
and the anti-immigrationinvasion party (AfD)

Small correction for accuracy...

23 posted on 03/13/2016 11:16:58 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Lorianne
The AfD argues that Germans have been denied a choice over a policy that could define their country for generations, with Merkel ruling in a "grand coalition" that includes her party's Socialist rivals.

And they would be right!

24 posted on 03/13/2016 11:23:09 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: fuzzylogic

My experience tells me your average European knows a LOT more about American history than your typical low-rent, public schooled moron in this country.


25 posted on 03/13/2016 12:01:57 PM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: Original Lurker
My experience tells me your average European knows a LOT more about American history than your typical low-rent, public schooled moron in this country.

I agree.

26 posted on 03/13/2016 12:06:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Moltke

Let’s not forget the whole ‘puff’ to the Greens in B-W...the Stuttgart-21 project. Without it....they are a 8-percent player in B-W. If you look at R-P politics...the Greens just don’t do that well (the SPD should be happy about that).

One odd note from all of this from Sachsen....almost 40-percent of what AfD got....came from people who normally don’t come out and vote. From the remainder....it came from CDU, SPD and Linke Party voters, which suggests that in eastern Germany regions....AfD might be able to subtract more for the two remaining elections in 2016.

For the remainder of the year....there needs to be absolutely no repeats of Koln riots, and the immigrant entry numbers for 2016 need to stay less than 500,000. Just my humble opinion.


27 posted on 03/13/2016 12:28:09 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Lorianne

Springtime for the Volk of Germany. Winter for Angie and the CDU.
That’ll be us in about 8 months.

My fearless prediction is that Merkle submits her application to the UN next week. She’s going down.


28 posted on 03/13/2016 12:32:40 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Original Lurker

I’m not sure about “average European”...but yes, I understand your point...it was running through my mind too.


29 posted on 03/13/2016 1:55:34 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: pepsionice

Not sure if Stuttgart-21 influenced many voters outside of Stuttgart itself (that project, for the general reader, being a railway update to the east-west line through Stuttgart, and badly needed IMO - the Stuttgart-Munich connection sucks as it is).

Then there are the Green hotspots like Tuebingen and Freiburg...but a lot of BW is still rural.

For some unfathomable reason the Pol Pot-apologist Green head honcho state prime minister Kretschmann managed to hoodwink many to vote for him. A pathetic failure of the other parties to call him out for what he once was (imagine an ex-Nazi pulling that same stunt...).

As to the 2016 ‘immigrant’ numbers - those should be turned around to something like -500,000, and that continuing for a few years...:-)


30 posted on 03/13/2016 2:25:05 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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