[Skybird]

The most amazing thing is the sheer, dramatic extent of the misjudgments of professional pollsters. Polls are never entirely correct, of course, but actually they usually reflect trends and tendencies quite well. But the extent to which one was completely wrong this time, is dramatic by German standards.

Just recently, the Greens looked like the sure winners in the next federal election, all markers pointing steeply upwards. It currently is a turkey shoot instead. Within days, it changed all by 180°. Within days. Maybe people started reading the Green election program. That the Greens want to destroy car driving in Germany while on European level they are the break for rising fuel prices due to demands form poor countries, maybe was what in the car-lover-nation Germany was the wrong detail to see the light of day.

Germany has just become electricity price champion again, btw. Nowhere else in the West electricity costs so much, than in Germany. Another record year!

Yes indeed, maybe people, have started to read the Green program - and started to realise how ruinous for ordinary private households it is. The cheating exaggerations in the biography of their candidate may have been another point.