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...droves. But voter participation in Hesse was only 61%, the lowest turnout ever recorded in the state. "The federal election will depend on which parties can mobilize voters but for the moment only the small parties are doing so - especially the FDP and the Greens," said Peter Lösche, an SPD expert and political scientist...
...before it becomes law. The new reality of legislative logjam means the two leading parties will have to cooperate, at least informally, or nothing will be accomplished. "There will be a de facto grand coalition constituted in the Mediation Committee," says Peter Lösche, a political scientist at the University of Göttingen. Grand coalitions are extremely rare in German politics, and both the SPD and the CDU explicitly ruled out such an arrangement after last September's parliamentary elections. But the stakes are too high to reject cooperation now. Unless Germany reforms its economy, the country risks...
...slump hit Germany, with unemployment inching up to the important benchmark of 4 million. Schroder made an election pledge four years ago to get jobless numbers down to 3.5 million by the time of the election on Sept. 22. "The economy is the big issue," says Peter Lösche, a professor of political science at the University of Göttingen. "It looks as if the conservatives have a very good chance." A poll published last week in the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel said that if voting took place last Sunday, Germans would have given 39% of their votes...
...that as a woman who grew up in East Germany, she could tap those constituencies. But polling data indicates that Stoiber is equally popular with both groups. "Stoiber's image of being conservative, even reactionary, is going to change as he moves to the center," says Lösche. And he's entering the race when the conservatives are far stronger than only a few short months...
Frank G. Jones, a representative from Fulbright and Jowalski, said that despite a high number of no-shows, he didn't think the picket line had an effect on the number of interviews. He said he thought the appointments which were not kept had been sche- duled by the boycotters in an effort to limitthe number of legitimate interviews the firm couldconduct...