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...Cabinet are openly advocating joining a grand coalition with the CDU, while dissidents in his own party are making plans without him. Not even flash floods in southern Germany?Schr?der's deft response to a similar crisis in eastern Germany helped him edge ahead of challenger Edmund Stoiber in 2002?look capable of saving him. "Every well-informed SPD voter knows that they cannot win this election," says Alfons S?llner, a political scientist at the Technical University of Chemnitz in eastern Germany...
...music-distribution rights regulator, gema. "We checked with gema and what we are doing is correct," he says. If Merkel and her cohorts haven't been getting much satisfaction in the first weeks of the campaign, they have only themselves to blame. Michael Spreng, who managed csu chairman Edmund Stoiber's failed attempt to topple Schröder three years ago, says Merkel's first few weeks have been "characterized by a series of blunders." Merkel has inflicted some of the damage herself - through lackluster performances in interviews and by her confusion, on two separate occasions, of the accounting concepts...
...taken at the Bayreuth Festival - backfired when the unretouched photo was widely published. And then, in a live television interview in July, Merkel confused net and gross wages when calculating how her plans to cut nonwage costs would affect the cost of labor in Germany. Her Bavarian ally Edmund Stoiber, who lost to Schröder in the 2002 election, is not helping matters. He lashed out at eastern German voters, who could tip the election. Stoiber regretted that "not all parts of the German population are as clever as Bavarians" and said he cannot accept "that the east determines...
...believe that we can solve their problems. North Rhine-Westphalia is the biggest state, so it clearly has significance for the broader political climate and battle of political forces." Wolfgang Teusch first soured on the Social Democrats back in 2002, when he joined the cdu and voted for Edmund Stoiber, Schröder's conservative rival for the chancellery in the last federal contest. Until then, he had always voted spd. Thomas Mahlberg is looking to capitalize on the disaffection of voters like Teusch. A stocky man with rosy cheeks, Mahlberg is one of the city's four candidates...
That kind of success comes from a careful and sometimes cautious nature, says Susanne A. Stoiber, executive director for the Institute. “I would characterize his approach to things as very much like a chess player—he always thinks seven or eight moves ahead,” she says. “He’s willing to take bold steps, but he’s only willing to do so with a carefully planned out strategy...