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• [1] George from Bay Ridge September 28, 2009 - 04:07AM

  How has the recent air strike in Afghanistan which killed a number of civilians affected the debate?

  What is the future for the opposition SPD party and others?

  
  
• [2] Gabrielle from Brooklyn September 28, 2009 - 09:17AM

  How are the German election results different from (or similar to)their fellow Western European's recent election outcomes? how does this affect both the region and the EU?

  
  
• [3] hjs from 11211 September 28, 2009 - 01:10PM

  did the left party and the greens take votes from the social democrats?

  
  
• [4] Richard J from Upper West Side September 28, 2009 - 01:31PM

  Is that eccentric pronunciation of "sluggard" for the benefit of us less-literate Colonials?

  
  
• [5] Horst Blahblub from Germany September 28, 2009 - 01:45PM

  Dear Leonard,

  thanks for taking up the topic of the German elections. It was very interesting to hear about it in such length from an outside perspective.

  There were little inaccuracies, but none too grave. Just one thing I'd like to clarify: The story about the German-ordered air strike that caused the civilian deaths was in fact front page news everywhere in Germany (tabloids, papers, tv etc) frequently for at least a week. Yet the details were so complicated and still subject to several investigations that it probably didn't affect the election much.

  There's certainly neither ignorance nor any kind of "bring it on" mentality here.

  @hjs: The Social Democrats lost ~800k votes to each of the major competing parties, but the greatest problem was that about 1.8 million of their regular voters stayed home this time.