Bavarian Lessons

Jim Geraghty on German Politics on National Review Online

"Bavarian Lessons
The German people have spoken-to us too!

Berlin, Germany — Here are eight things Americans can learn from Germany's recently completed election:

Thank goodness for our two major parties and the Electoral College. After weeks of intense campaigning, Germans (and others around the world) tuned in on election night and learned... nothing. The vote was split amongst the five major parties.




The right-of-center Christian Democrats got 35.2 percent; their traditional allies, the FDP, received 9.8 percent — no majority there. On the Left, the Social Democrats got 34.3 percent; their current allies, the Greens, garnered 8.1 percent; and the new way-out-there Left party that none of the other parties want to work with received 8.6 percent."