February 9, 2010
Published: 7 Nov 09 12:01 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20091107-23093.html
Less than six weeks after giving Chancellor Angela Merkel another term in office, a new survey says one in six German voters regrets their decision on September 27 and would now pick a different party.
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Your comments about this article:
Given that everybody knows that both CDU/CSU and FDP prefer each other to every other party, it does not make sense to regret your choice as long as you did not vote for FDP or CDU- why should you now prefer, say Die Linke to SPD when six weeks ago you voted in favor of SPD..? They didn't do that much in the last few weeks that could change one's opinion about them, did they?
If you voted for a party that lost, but your opinion changed know, that means you would vote now for CDU/FDP, I don't think that you would really regret you choice- they won anyways. Maybe you are relieved
What a stupid article.....
1.) Who did the 1 in 6 vote for?
2.) How many after the last vote regretted theirs?
3.) This article is fluff.
I don't know what model they are following (Spiegel Online has gotten ridiculous too) but it seems like the quality of news people spend their time reading is going to the dogs. Maybe it's not such a bad idea to buy subscriptions and support good journalism where one can find it afterall.