Voting Trends?

 RTL and N-TV did a poll on German politics.....mostly looking back at 2017 and how people voted, and the changes occurring today.

So in the case of SPD voters from 2017....only around 42-percent of the 2017 voters would return and vote for the SPD in 2021.  From the departing group....28-percent said they'd vote for the Green Party today, and roughly 10-percent said they'd vote for the CDU today.

A serious loss of voter confidence?  In just four years?  Yeah.

From the 2017 CDU voters?  Same issue.  Almost half of the CDU crowd said they would not return and vote for the CDU today.  Sixteen percent of this 2017 group have flipped to the Green Party today.  Eight percent of the 2017 group say they'd vote FDP today.  Then you come to this oddball group (18-percent)....who are mostly undecided from their 2017 situation and not really confirmed to anyone at this point.

All of this suggesting a major shift in German politics for 2021's federal election?  More or less.

2017's national election centered to a great degree on migration and immigration issues....bringing the AfD Party to an extremely high level, and shocking the SPD and CDU elite.

2021?  It's centered on three key topics.....Covid-19, economic stability, and climate change.  Migration issues?  They've probably shifted around to middle of the top twenty issues discussed for the election.