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Since the coalition's breakup, Schmidt's party has received a "sympathy boost." The latest Allensbach poll showed that the Social Democrats have rebounded from a low ebb of 31.4% last July to 36.8%. During the Hesse campaign, the S.P.D. plastered Free Democratic posters with red stickers denouncing their "Betrayal in Bonn." In recent speeches, Schmidt has heaped scorn on the Free Democrats, calling Genscher a Weinpanscher (someone who sells wine diluted with water). As he took the helm of a riverboat on the Rhine last week, Schmidt implied that he was glad...
Strauss's call for early elections sent shivers of fear through the Free Democrats. Genscher had repeatedly stressed to Kohl that he needed time to repair the damage to his party's popularity and that a rush to new elections could prove fatal. The respected Allensbach Institute produced a snap poll last week showing that popular support for the Free Democrats had dropped to 2.3%, a precipitous decline from the 10.6% they won in the 1980 national elections. According to the West German constitution, a party must get at least 5% of the vote to be represented...
Meanwhile, the S.P.D.'s standing with the public continued to decline. A poll conducted in July by the respected Allensbach Institute showed that the Christian Democrats could win an outright majority of 53.7% in national elections, in contrast to an alltime low of 31.4% for the Social Democrats and a dangerously thin 5.1% for the Free Democrats. The Greens-Alternative List, an amalgam of leftists, environmentalists, pacifists and other radical groups, would win an unprecedented 9%. The result represented a dramatic decline for Schmidt's coalition, which had won a combined 53.8% in October...
...Social Democrats are not unhappy about Barzel's victory. An Allensbach Institute opinion poll in July gave Schröder 41% of the vote against 43% for Brandt; Barzel got only 34% v. 50% for the Chancellor. But there are those who believe that Barzel can be sold to the public, much as Richard Nixon...
Less emotional observers, however, wondered whether the very scale of the response indicated that the accusation had hit home. A poll taken by the Allensbach Institute showed that three out of four Germans rated themselves "exceptionally clean." The average German housewife spends perhaps four hours daily scrubbing and polishing her home, and 75% of car owners feel obliged to wash and polish their autos every Saturday afternoon...