No sooner have you been assigned to the Unter-Bayern column for a few weeks than all sorts of things are happening. There was this federal election, in which again no Bayer became chancellor, and one would actually think: The subject of “polls” is through with it. But far from it. It’s all about that now! And what’s not going on there. The Bavarian SPD is currently happy about an unbelievable 20 percent and wonders what that can have to do with their politics. In the neighboring country, a chancellor resigns because of polls that are five years old. And Hubert Aiwanger has a problem because he illegally tweeted poll results during the election process. Doesn’t matter, says the Federal Returning Officer, there weren’t any real poll results at all. But the Aiwanger doesn’t want to say where he got the numbers. Maybe they came from the Beinschab polling institute?
But – watch out, Hubert! – Sebastian Kurz also worked with him at the time. You can see what he got out of it now. Just a few weeks ago, the CSU saw it as a great figure of light, in the meantime the light has dawned on it and it asks very hypocritically: What should we have said? Figure of light? We don’t remember. Personally, I like the Austrian nickname “Wunderwuzzi” much better for the short. That sounds so beautifully Viennese-semi-silky, more like Josephine Mutzenbacher than like Empress Maria Theresa. But of course it’s easy to express oneself so disparagingly today. What the Viennese footballer and master trainer Ernst Happel once said applies to this matter too: “Vurher must know because you still have to know!”
Markus Söder, on the other hand, knew quite a lot long before the general election, but at the moment it looks like that of all things is falling on his feet. As a precaution, he is not even going to Münster for the Junge Union’s Germany Day, because apparently he is no longer the shining light he used to be for the offspring of blacks. The JUers have probably realized by now that even in kindergarten the guy who relishly smashed the big tower made of building blocks was never there when it came to rebuilding it bigger and more beautiful. To find out, however, you don’t need time-consuming surveys – neither real nor fudged.