Word: sche
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...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...