We are about a week into the Baerbock plagiarism episode and various news journalists are analyzing her candidate potential (Green Party Chancellor candidate).
You can basically say four things about this scandal:
1. Going out to publish a book on your 'ideas' about four months before an election is risky. You'd expect plagiarism experts, more senior Green Party members, and a journalist or two....to review the book before release. In this case, you don't get the impression that happened.
2. Admitting the 14-odd mistakes in the 240-page book? No....Baerbock has avoided admitting a mistake.
3. Are any of these ideas explored in the book totally her ideas? Well....you'd assume so. But at this point, it's a difficult assumption to make.
4. Is plagiarism a reason to force a candidate into quitting? It's a question that is difficult to answer.
Still front-page news? Oh yeah....you can go to any of the normal ten news sources that you'd use, and they all still talk about it today (Saturday) on their top ten issues (front-page).
Are there Green voters who are unhappy with this whole story? I would take a wild guess that 10-percent are disgruntled about this story, and probably a quarter of all Green Party voters in Germany weren't that pro-Baerbock even before she was announced as the candidate for the party.
As for this leaving the front-page? I would suggest by the end of next week....it's moved to page five, and mostly just laughed about by the other parties.
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