Election Day in Germany

For anyone interested in the German elections, here are the most recent opinion polls in Germany. There is a surprising lack of polls carried out in the last few days - presumably there isn't any law against them, since Forsa have managed to put one out with fieldwork carried out midweek.

	Date	CDU/CSU	FPD	Green	SPD	The left
Forsa	24/09/09	33	14	10	25	12
YouGov	24/09/09	34	11	10	27	11
Allensbach	21/09/09	35	13.5	11	24	11.5
GMS	17/09/09	36	13	11	25	11
Forschungruppe	17/09/09	36	13	10	25	11
Infratest	17/09/09	35	14	10	26	11
Emnid	16/09/09	33	14	10	25	12
INFO GmbH	15/09/09	34	12	10	27	12

At the last German elections in 2005 the polls performed very poorly - showing CDU leads between 7 and 9 points, when they ended up leading by only 1 point. Let's see if they've done any better this time round.

UPDATE: Prior to the election the German electoral commission made a great fuss about the risk of people leaking exit polls on Twitter, which frankly is asking to become a self-fulfilling prophesy. Amusingly though, with twenty minutes to go Twitter is now flooded with lots of people posting contradictory fake exit polls.

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