(Currently listening to rural Bavarians scream at each other in Oberpfalzer dialect at the town Stammtisch. If you weren't born somewhere between Nuremberg, Regensburg and Weiden, forget understanding them, even if your German is excellent.)
yeah!!!
But this is simply stunning - when's the last time the CSU came under 50% in Bavaria. I remember that when Stoiber was shooting off his mouth about the Ossis, many commentators said there was method in his madness - rack up massive vote totals in CSU/CDU strongholds that would outweigh any loss in the East. Well, if it really was a deliberate strategy, looks like it didn't work too well.
