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Saturday, 26th September 2009

I'd assumed Angela Merkel was home and dry, but according to the Telegraph the result could go either way:

"It's going to be a thriller," Peter Loesche, a Goettingen University pollster. "It's 50-50. A shift of two or three percentage points to the Social Democrats and you could get a situation like 2005." The cautious strategy adopted by the woman who has led Germany since 2005 has failed to either satisfy CDU supporter or win over floating voters. Even the party's signature issue of tax cuts has received only a lukewarm endorsement from the woman who is supposed to be its chief proponent. Frustration with Mrs Merkel's prickly personality has spilt over at party rallies where groups of demonstrators mock her pronouncements by chanting "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah".
[Photo: Signs placed on chairs at the Arena Berlin prior to the CDU's final election rally / Sean Gallup/Getty Images]

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