Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Poll Story

 It's an odd political survey and I'd question who came up with this topic and their driving purpose.  Focus laid out the story (leading to a Swiss newspaper and a polling organization).  It's a 12-line story at best.

So Germans were asked in this poll....if they felt if Armin Laschet (the CDU Chancellor candidate)....would or should be replaced in the campaign.  

31-percent of Germans said yes (the older the generation....the agreeable to this idea they were).

It was only 29-percent who felt Laschet was the 'right' candidate.

The rest?  Undecided.

A scenario to this?  I studied the issue and how this might work.  There is one single state election coming up....the 6th of June....the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

The general expectation by polls over the past month or two?  The CDU ought to win that state election, but only by two points (getting around 26-percent of the votes).  Second place?  Oddly enough.....the AfD Party is polling near 24-percent.  No one else is even close....the Linke and Green Parties are down at around 12-to-13 percent each.  

Under my scenario....a frenzy would occur, and the CDU loses at least four points, and the AfD wins the state election with 27-percent.  Suddenly, the entire prospective of the September national election is changed. 

In this embarrassing situation....a meeting would occur with the CDU membership demanding a full-up meeting by the 3rd week of June, and they want a clear vote from themselves....NOT the Executive Committee.  

What might happen?  I could see Laschet dumped, but there might be six different people now running (going beyond Soder).  A whole new prospective would arrive.

Odds of this?  It's awful crazy.....but it's just odd that these Swiss newspaper folks ask for this type of poll.  

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