{"id":756,"date":"2005-08-30T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/30\/112541376822104377\/"},"modified":"2005-08-30T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T15:50:00","slug":"112541376822104377","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/112541376822104377\/","title":{"rendered":"112541376822104377"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl><b>German elections:<\/b> Anthony Wells, it would appear, is <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/german-elections-despite-weekend-polls.html\">my bitch<\/a>. Hurrah! Check out his newly updated <a href=\"http:\/\/pollingreport.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?page_id=453\">German election polls info<\/a>, and his <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/german-elections-despite-weekend-polls.html#112541326429024613\">sage advice and analysis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The figures to watch on the German polls aren&#8217;t the gap between the CDU\/CSU and the SDP, but the sum of the CDU\/CSU and FDP figures &#8211; or more specifically, if they are over 50%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A couple of months ago they were well above 50%. August has been a bit dicey, with the combined figure often falling to 49%. Once parties that fall below the 5% threshold are excluded, 49% would probably be enough to scrape a meagre majority for the CDU\/CSU+FDP, but it&#8217;s too close for any real comfort. The most recent two polls however have shown the CDU\/CSU+FDP back over the 50% mark.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the left, while the SDP have gained some support &#8211; recent polls have them at 30% when a month or so ago they were marooned around the 26-27% mark &#8211; this is mostly at the expense of the new Left party, who seem to have peaked at the end of last month when they were regularly hitting 12%. Now they are are 10% or lower.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Top work, Mr Wells!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German elections: Anthony Wells, it would appear, is my bitch. Hurrah! Check out his newly updated German election polls info, and his sage advice and analysis: &#8220;The figures to watch on the German polls aren&#8217;t the gap between the CDU\/CSU &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/112541376822104377\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}