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To: WillP who wrote (170125)9/13/2005 3:24:46 AM
From: Elsewhere  Respond to of 281500
 
Race in Germany Narrows as Schröder Gains in Surveys
By Richard Bernstein
The New York Times September 13, 2005
nytimes.com

BERLIN, Sept. 12 - With less than a week to go until election day, the German campaign has tightened, according to the latest polls, with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's leftist Social Democratic Party making gains on Mr. Schröder's opponent, Angela Merkel, leader of the right-of-center Christian Democratic Union. ...

The party proposing a reduction of the extreme tax bureaucracy is punished in polls. Looks like there will be no clear majority on Sunday, four more years of deadlock.