The billboard posters were getting weatherbeaten, the speakers were getting hoarse, and the West German people were getting, well, perhaps a little bored. The 1965 election campaign was ending at last. It had been a listless process, and perhaps out of sheer resignation, the voters seemed about evenly divided. The latest polls showed Chancellar Ludwig Erhard's Christian Democratic Union and Mayor Willy Brandt's Social Democratic Party each with 45% of the decided votebut there was a small catch: 1 West German voter in 4 still stolidly listed himself as "undecided."
It was not for lack of effort on the part...
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