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1 posted on 02/02/2003 9:18:39 AM PST by HAL9000
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MORE

Yes, I want to hear more about this.......LOL.

2 posted on 02/02/2003 9:20:26 AM PST by Howlin
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To: HAL9000

Exit polls show defeat for Schroeder party in German state elections

By TONY CZUCZKA Associated Press Writer

BERLIN, Feb 02, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party suffered a crushing defeat in two German state elections Sunday, failing to capitalize on a national anti-war mood that the chancellor tapped while campaigning for his Social Democrats, according to exit polls.

Feb 02, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- More than 10 million citizens were eligible to vote in the first electoral test since September national elections that narrowly returned Schroeder to power.

Schroeder, who governed Lower Saxony for more than eight years before becoming chancellor, tried to mobilize left-leaning core voters by touting his defiance of U.S. pressure for war and his view that Germany has a duty to seek peaceful solutions because of its militaristic past.

"My mandate, as I see it, is to fight for it with all my might that conflicts everywhere in the world are resolved in this way - and in no other," he told his party's closing rally Friday in Hanover, the Lower Saxony capital.

Edmund Stoiber, the defeated conservative challenger in last year's national election, criticized Schroeder in the Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag, saying he had undermined international trust in Germany with his "go-it-alone approach" against Washington on Iraq.

The apparent double defeat for the Social Democrats could increase pressure from the conservative opposition and inside Schroeder's party for bolder economic reforms, such as loosening the tightly regulated labor market and trimming social-welfare benefits.

Regardless of the outcome, Schroeder's party already ruled out personnel changes at the national level, where the Social Democrats govern with the junior Greens party of Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.

"The Schroeder-Fischer administration will stay," Olaf Scholz, the Social Democrats' secretary-general, told the weekend edition of the Berliner Zeitung newspaper.

Copyright 2003 Associated Press, All rights reserved


3 posted on 02/02/2003 9:20:51 AM PST by HAL9000
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Hal...can someone explain what this means...
4 posted on 02/02/2003 9:21:09 AM PST by Dog ( STS 107......They have slipped the surly bonds of earth..........to touch the face of God.)
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To: HAL9000
Das ist gut!
5 posted on 02/02/2003 9:21:21 AM PST by RepublicanHippy
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To: HAL9000
They're figuring out Herr Schroeder is a Loser.
6 posted on 02/02/2003 9:22:24 AM PST by demlosers
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(((ping)))
7 posted on 02/02/2003 9:22:59 AM PST by austinTparty
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To: HAL9000
Oh, man, I LOVE Schadenfreude. I'm having it right now, big-time.
8 posted on 02/02/2003 9:25:41 AM PST by Xenalyte (a malicious satisfaction in the misfortunes of others)
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To: HAL9000

"I see nothing!!!"

16 posted on 02/02/2003 10:03:47 AM PST by Thane_Banquo
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To: HAL9000
Ha Ha Ha - I'm Not Worried!. .
The American Democrats Have Promised Their Support!!

17 posted on 02/02/2003 10:05:26 AM PST by Happy2BMe (It's All About You - It's All About Me - It's All About Being Free!)
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To: HAL9000
Results in Hessen:

Party________2003 %______1999 %
==============================

CDU...........50.1.......43.4
SPD...........27.7.......39.4
Greens.........9.4........7.2
FDP............8.4........5.1

Results in Lower Saxony:

Party________2003 %______1999 %
==============================

CDU...........48.0.......35.9
SPD...........33.2.......47.9
Greens.........7.5........7.5
FDP............8.4........4.9

18 posted on 02/02/2003 10:10:12 AM PST by tictoc (Dhimmis R Us)
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To: HAL9000
How often do they have elections over there? Didn't they just have one?


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22 posted on 02/02/2003 10:26:29 AM PST by logic101.net
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Die Welt says Schroeder and his party are now in deep trouble: Der Bundes-SPD droht ein Richtungsstreit .
34 posted on 02/02/2003 11:29:42 AM PST by aristeides
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party loses two German state elections, exit polls say.

Radio news this morning said not only lose, but lose badly. If this keeps up, France will be alone with their delusions.

63 posted on 02/02/2003 1:23:47 PM PST by RightWhale
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To: HAL9000
Gee, what a shame. NOT!
75 posted on 02/02/2003 2:21:24 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: HAL9000
This does not surprise me.
82 posted on 02/02/2003 5:45:22 PM PST by rs79bm
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To: HAL9000
Axis of Weasels BUMP!!!!
84 posted on 02/02/2003 6:55:25 PM PST by BlueOneGolf (I support the Axis of FReedom.)
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