Party Hopes Condoms Will Get Out the Vote
From Times Wire Reports
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democratic Party, or SPD, has picked an unorthodox way to reach voters: condoms in the party’s bright red color.
Red boxes containing 100 condoms with the slogan “Feel Good, SPD” are being sold at a gift shop at the party’s headquarters in Berlin for 44 euros, or about $40, an SPD spokesman said.
Schroeder is in a tough battle for reelection Sept. 22. His center-left SPD trails the conservative opposition by about four percentage points in polls.
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