Courtesy of Mish.
Reader Bernd from Germany (not Bernd Lucke, AfD anti-euro party leader) has emailed me several times since Friday about polls conducted by the German tabloid Bild.
Emphasis must be placed on the the word “tabloid” because intellectuals and academics do not tend to read the paper, nor even acknowledge its existence.
Nonetheless, Bild is the number one readership paper in Germany, by far, with about 20 million readers daily. And a poll is a poll, not a slanted news article.
The Bild is not a supporter of AfD in the least. If the poll is pro-Afd biased, it surely was not by the Bild.
With that backdrop here are a few emails from reader Bernd.
Friday June 14
Hi Mish,
I hope you are well!
Today’s “Bild Zeitung” online poll show support for AfD above 20%, way higher than in any official poll.
If the chancellor could be elected directly, Angela Merkel would beat Peer Steinbrück by 63% to 37%. However, we do not elect the Chancellor directly. The party picture is what matters.
Merkel’s current coalition (CDU/CSU/FDP) would only get 26% of the vote, not enough for her to remain as Chancellor without support from AfD or SPD.
Interestingly, the Bild did not even mention AfD in any coalition, a possible indication that Bild did not expect AfD to score anything above 5%. …
