Posted on 03/13/2016 9:37:22 AM PDT by Lorianne
This Sunday election (13th) was in 3 states only (Pfalz, Sachsen, and Baden-Wurttemberg).
Last Sundays city/county election that occurred....did involve Hessen. Most towns had a CDU and SPD split....but both lost votes over the last election, and the anti-immigration party (AfD) carried around 10-percent if you count individual party races in each town.
I’d say roughly 20-percent of the nation are fed up and frustrated with the immigrant policy. Another 20-percent are asking questions...especially over the cost factor. The pro-immigrant side is maybe 30-percent at best, and everyone else neutral.
Three states, three VERY different outcomes...(other than the Afd getting some solid votes in all three). Greens strongest party in Baden-Wuerttemberg, almost don’t make the 5% cut in neighboring Rhineland-Palatine?
Small correction for accuracy...
And they would be right!
My experience tells me your average European knows a LOT more about American history than your typical low-rent, public schooled moron in this country.
I agree.
Let’s not forget the whole ‘puff’ to the Greens in B-W...the Stuttgart-21 project. Without it....they are a 8-percent player in B-W. If you look at R-P politics...the Greens just don’t do that well (the SPD should be happy about that).
One odd note from all of this from Sachsen....almost 40-percent of what AfD got....came from people who normally don’t come out and vote. From the remainder....it came from CDU, SPD and Linke Party voters, which suggests that in eastern Germany regions....AfD might be able to subtract more for the two remaining elections in 2016.
For the remainder of the year....there needs to be absolutely no repeats of Koln riots, and the immigrant entry numbers for 2016 need to stay less than 500,000. Just my humble opinion.
Springtime for the Volk of Germany. Winter for Angie and the CDU.
That’ll be us in about 8 months.
My fearless prediction is that Merkle submits her application to the UN next week. She’s going down.
I’m not sure about “average European”...but yes, I understand your point...it was running through my mind too.
Not sure if Stuttgart-21 influenced many voters outside of Stuttgart itself (that project, for the general reader, being a railway update to the east-west line through Stuttgart, and badly needed IMO - the Stuttgart-Munich connection sucks as it is).
Then there are the Green hotspots like Tuebingen and Freiburg...but a lot of BW is still rural.
For some unfathomable reason the Pol Pot-apologist Green head honcho state prime minister Kretschmann managed to hoodwink many to vote for him. A pathetic failure of the other parties to call him out for what he once was (imagine an ex-Nazi pulling that same stunt...).
As to the 2016 ‘immigrant’ numbers - those should be turned around to something like -500,000, and that continuing for a few years...:-)
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