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Perhaps a naive take, but the multiparty approach seems to deliver policies more in line with the average voter.

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Very interesting and quite informative. I am wondering about the color coding for the map at the head of the newsletter, particularly about the multiple gray-toned election districts that seem to relate to the color coding at the bottom of the newsletter; but the result is ambiguous. What significance, if any, should readers attribute to the color distributions among what appear to be 299 vote count reporting districts?

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Thanks for the rapid and thorough summary. I've lived in Israel for 20 years, since Arik Sharon's victory. The process of fractioning of what were once two major parties into half a dozen evolving subcoalitions is familiar. And just as confusing.

At the start of your article, can you sum up the percentages for all of Germany, as I don't know the relative populations of the DDR and GDP.

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