Angela Merkel races ahead in polls with six weeks to go

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15. The gist of the piece I got was "Schulz should be doing better, why isn't he?"

Schulz gets plenty of press coverage in Germany. I'm in the States for the moment, but I live there and speak fluent German, it's not like I am picking and choosing from "friendly" blogs. It's just that Schulz is so uninspiring that his low numbers are deserved, something the Germans seem to get better than the Guardian's article's author. I came away with the feeling that the article implied that Schulz ought to be doing better. It's too bad that the political editor of the Guardian has changed since the days they asked me to do something for them (going back about ten years or so), or else I would been able to ask her directly.