BERLIN (Reuters) - Support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) dropped slightly in two polls published on Tuesday after 10 days of nationwide protests against the far-right party, although it remained firmly in second place.
Support for the AfD dropped 2 percentage points to 20% in a Forsa poll, the lowest level in four months. The party remained behind the opposition conservatives on 31% but still well ahead of all the three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left coalition, who together were polling 32%.
The AfD dropped 1.5 percentage points on the week to 21.5% in the poll by the German Institute for New Social Answers (INSA), behind the conservatives on 30.5% and the ruling coalition on 31%.
“The demonstrations against the AfD are supported by 37% of Germans and they are showing an impact,” INSA chief Hermann Binkert said.
To people that are saying the protests are all words and no action. This is what the action accomplishes. There’s a subset of people that only mildly supported AfD or thought that their rheteoric wouldn’t affect them but publicizing the secretive meeting and master-plan gets at least a few people to realize what’s going on.
Sure there will still be a bunch of people that don’t realize they’re being had for suckers. It will only be too late when the supporters realize “they aren’t hurting who they needing to be hurting”.
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10 % of voters wavering is not a lot though.
That’s double-digit. How many would qualify as a lot?
Because 20 of 22 % of voters not caring is much more.