How would each state vote with German parties?

[Michael Z]

Just a total guess, but...

Red=SPD
Blue=CDU

Can't see any of the other parties doing well, though the Greens might make inroads in Minnesota while the FDP could do well in the NE, especially NH.

[Michael Z]

Wow, you have the CDU doing WAY WAY WAY too well.

There's no way they'd take places like Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, New Jersey, Maryland and Vermont.

By American standards the CDU are basically a bunch of Rockefeller Republicans (they've basically been centre-right ever since the Kohl era, with most of the right-wing lunatics in its sister party, the CSU).

On the other hand, the SPD supports things like universal/public health care and occasionally reverts to socialist rhetoric, which wouldn't go down well in most states AT ALL.

[Michael Z]

But as with most European 'socialist' parties there is a HUGE difference between rhetoric and actual policy.

Of course, but you can imagine how well something like Müntefehring's "locusts"-remark would go down in the US, ie. not very.