Germany: Merkel Remains Extremely Popular

If you could vote for the chancellor directly, who would you vote for?

Angela Merkel (CDU)	57%
Kurt Beck (SPD)	15%
Other / Not sure	28%

Source: Forsa / Stern / RTL

Methodology: Interviews with 2,501 German adults, conducted from Aug. 22 to Aug. 24, 2007. Margin of error is 2.5 per cent.