In Germany there are two votes in each election. The “Erststime” to vote for a candidate and the second (the “Zweitstimme”) to vote for a party. The second is the more important as it sets most of the parliament.
I am not happy with the Erststimme it is used now (german). Most voters know the candites [...]
Even though Angela Merkel does not get tired to remember that in the elctions of 2002 just 6000 votes (german) were missing to bring the CDU/CSU to government, the larger number of voters does not believe that it is exactly their vote that makes the difference in the elections. As there are about 60 million [...]
When I walk through the town I see posters of the Piratenpartei everywhere. Maybe it is just a subjective perception as the Pirates are discussed so often in the Blogossphäre or maybe it is because the posters are quite unique? But even when counting them I still have the impression that there are lots of [...]
I have to admit that I do not know exactly how an professional opinion poll is done. There I don’t want to focus the casting of the sample of respondents but the act of questioning itself. I imagine that the selected persons are confronted with a question like: “Which party would you vote for assuming [...]
I tried to make a Party opinion poll and so got from many political parties an answer to four questions which could be read in my original email. Unfortunally there will be no translation of any of the answers, but nevertheless I will publish the link to the German version of the answer. In case [...]
Election posters could be quite misleading. Or what shall one think about the large posters of Frank-Walter Steinmeier which are set up by the SPD (translation by the author of the slogan “Unser Land kann mehr”: “Our country can do better”)?
If my employer would set up a poster showing me with the slogan: “Our [...]
Not alone the politicians and the political parties have to make compromises in their daily political work. The same is urged from the voter as well. In general this is quite natural as there will be hardly any voter who agrees absolutely with all goals and statements of any political party or candidate. This experience [...]
When looking at the current polls on the elections to the German Bundestag the decision seems not too clear yet. We shall not forget the victory of the SPD under Gerhard Schröder against Edmund Stoiber in 2002. Like then it now does not look to bright for the SPD. The recent results of Forsa (other [...]
After the already published yideo short film“Du bist Terrorist” (= “You are a terrorist (german)) there is another clip now against surveillance done by the government with the title “Rette Deine Freiheit” (= “Save your Freedom (german)). Both videos show in a simple but haunting way the (possible) consequences of planned and already existing measures [...]
Since all answer of the parties have been published I want to come to an evaluation of the party opinion poll (the link is leading to the questions and in overview of all answers of the poll). A closer evaluation of the single answers I might do later in another thread. But even now everyone [...]
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