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The CDU/CSU won Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, and Sachsen.
I can't find the preliminary official result of Rheinland-Pfalz (it could have gone either way, but I predict it narrowly went SPD).
But you can see that if you go state by state, the SPD did very well. It's kinda ludicrous to think the CDU wants to lead the country, having won a majority in only three states.
If you can't convince them, confuse them. (Harry S. Truman)
16148240(SPD)<= 13096556(CDU) + 3494564 (CSU)
Well, I donlt think it is so clear cut,
have a look this map on the tagesschau site http://stat.tagesschau.de/wahlarchiv/wid246/index.shtml
it shows there are more black areas - overall, CDU/ CSU have also more first votes than the SPD, It also means that theoretically more Laender should be run by Social Democratic governments, like infuriatingly NRW, which they are not.
Well, that might change again...
But all this is a discussion I didn't really mean to get into. I wasn't making a point about Germany's electoral system - I was just trying to point out that I'm really pretty darn impressed with the SPD's performance in these elections, and I think there's something to be said for the legitimacy of Schroeder's claim of a mandate. If you can't convince them, confuse them. (Harry S. Truman)
No it doesn't. And I have no idea why you think it does.
And then, the fact is, if Germany had an electoral college - and please don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it should adopt one, see below - Schroeder would have crushed Merkel tonight. Now do you consider that a bad outcome? Just asking
Yes, I would absolutely consider that a bad outcome. Very bad! I have this quaint idea that in a democracy you should not be able to 'crush' an opponent who gets more votes than you do.
As to the EC in America, the main problem I have is with the winner takes all rule, not the minor distortions in the number of electoral votes.
36,9 - 34,6
(12 - 11 seats)
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