Schroeder Regains Popularity in Polls ; Bush Re-Election Helps Chancellor

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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, hit by a spate of midterm election defeats over his cutbacks in social welfare spending, is regaining his popularity in opinion polls after the re-election of President Bush.

"This way it's simpler for Schroeder," said Richard Hilmer, head of the Infratest polling institute in Berlin. "With [Senator John] Kerry in the White House, the pressure to make a contribution in Iraq would have mounted."

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Schroeder Regains Popularity in Polls ; Bush Re-Election Helps Chancellor

The latest opinion polls even suggest that Mr. Schroeder, whose vocal opposition to the war in Iraq helped him win a second ...

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