GER-Infratest dimap/ARD: Germany's 140 EV solidly in the Obama column

[Middle-aged Europe]

Doesn't surprise me. I'd be more interested in the 7% of Germans that support Romney. Who is that? I doubt anyone I know here is against Obama. NPD voters and xenophobics?

The two people I know who support the NPD are the same two [German] people I know who support Romney.

It actually surprises me that NPD voters would support Mitt Romney. After all he's a "Zionist puppet" and candidate of the "Jewish-American corporate elite".

Germany has a very tiny group of neo-conservatives who are staunchly pro-American (read pro-Republican) and pro-Israel (read pro-Likud), who supported the Iraq invasion in 2003 and would support an Israeli strike against Iran. Think Henryk M. Broder as an prominent example (ignore his religion please, there are also non-Jewish examples). I suppose most Romney supporters must come from that group.

[Middle-aged Europe]

What saddens me is that a wonderful country like Germany votes like DC

It saddens me that as good a country as the USA will give Romney/Ryan at least 45% of the votes

It saddens me that German right-wingers think that Obama espouses similar views to themselves.

Well, Obama has similar views to the German Conservatives, really.
There is a big decalage between European and American politics.
Someone running with Merkel policies in USA would be attacked for being a liberal.

Heck, Angela Merkel is even sometimes attacked by German conservatives for being "too liberal". In America, she would be considered a pinko communist traitor.

[Middle-aged Europe]

You know, maybe I'm just dumb, but I honestly don't understand what Keystone Phil is trying to say here. I even looked up the term "handwringing" in a dictionary, but it didn't help. Can someone help me comprehend what he's getting at??