German Political Update
Schroeder won. The Social Democrat/Green Party Coalition won 306 seats. The Conservatives won 295 seats.

There has been talk in the US of the several different Socialist parties and the Greens doing some coalition building and it has mostly been dismissed from what I've heard. (There are some major rifts between the different socialist parties in the US which I'm not sure I completely understand.) Maybe this will get people thinking. The Social Democrats would never have won this election had it not been for the Greens.