Election Day

It was election day in Munich today and after just observing elections in various countries at various stages of democratization, I went into the booth for the first time in 20 years. Current Social Democratic mayor Christian Ude was the only candidate with a platform promising to raise the ratio of child care from slots for 3 % of all kids in Munich to something approaching two digits (yup, my priorities did change, there were some guys promising world peace, but we just need a slot in the nursery for now). Although he does love his ceremonial duties (like the customary opening of the first barrell at Oktoberfest every year) a bit too much. Anyway. He got 66.7 % of the votes. That's 0.2 % more than today's results for Putin crony Medvedev.

Turned out our neighborhood is more boho than we thought. The whole rise and shine stuff definitely doesn't fly on a Sunday morning around here. Fred went early and there was almost nobody at the polling station. I went after my Sunday shift and it was packed with young bohemians, gay cruisers and old hippies. Our district is also the only one where the Rosa Liste (the local party for gays and lesbians, and that means party as in political) has a real chance to get an assemblyman (OR woman) in. How West Village is that.