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Washington Post:

German voters dumped Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's government Sunday, but split their ballots among so many different parties that none was able to muster enough support to replace it.

Exit polls indicated that the German electorate was more fragmented than in any other national vote in recent history, a reflection of deep anxiety over record unemployment and years of anemic growth in the world's third-biggest economy. Although voters delivered a resounding defeat to Schroeder's ruling coalition, they were almost equally unimpressed with his chief rival, Angela Merkel, who was bidding to become the country's first female chancellor and the first from the former East Germany.

Perhaps it was Florida 2000 envy. The basic problem is that most Germans realize that Schroeder does not have the answer to their economic doldrums and unemployment. However many fear the change that would be necessry to get out of the funk. They wind up doing nothing.