01-25-2018, 02:39 PM
(01-25-2018, 02:32 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: At this pace, they'll be "over 20%" by 2022.
The problem is that a lot of SPD voters are disenchanted with them, right now. Especially since the vote by the party to enter coalition talks, they aren't pleased. The CDU/CSU party would be mainstream (or what used to be mainstream) GOP, and SPD are New Deal style Democrats. What they see right now is the SPD becoming like the Democrats of today. This is causing those more liberal voters to look elsewhere, and combine this with voters more to the right that has previously been CDU/CSU voters going to AfD, you get what is happening now.
It's difficult to look at polls somewhere without talking to the people and reading the news from there (regularly, not just random headlines) and get a good idea of what is going on, but this is what I understand from some people in Germany I know.
