Regional elections in Germany show gains for the left and the Green Party.

The Social Democrats won 36% of the vote, up 6% from 2006 and the Green Party also gained. It's up to 8.5% from 3.4% in 2006.


Angela "multiculturalism is a failure" Merkel and her coalition lost in today's election: her center rightist Christian Democrats are at 23.3% from 28.8% in 2006 and her coalition allies lost as well.

Those who also slid down the percentage ladder were the new Neo-Nazi party, or NPD, who in 2006 had a 7.3% and is now at 5.9%. This group consider Auschwitz's Concentration Camp commander Rudolph Hess a "martyr", extended a friendship to Iran's holocaust denying president Ahmadinejad while wanting at the same time to ban Turkey's inclusion in the European Union, are on friendly terms with an American Nazi Party leader and also consider President Obama's election a result of "the American alliance of Jews and Negroes". Not happy, they also consider support for the American President in Germany to "resemble an African tropical disease".

In the meantime, considering, on these oh so loved shores of ours, it'll be interesting to see when and how the Tea Party will refuse admission into its ranks to Marco Rubio and Sarah Palin after courting them.