Given the state of the campaign, the Greens have already been doing a pretty good job of confirming their own irrelevance. If it’s been a horrible campaign season for the SPD and the FDP, it’s not been an easy one for the Greens. Polls show the Greens winning between 9% and 11% of the vote, and markedly less than the 20% to 25% that polls showed the Greens winning in much of 2011 — after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan but before Merkel announced her support for phasing out Germany’s nuclear energy. Continue reading Top German Green Party leader tagged with sensational sexual politics kerfuffle →