Conservatives in Germany traditionally suffer a gender gap, which in this case suggests a large majority of male voters will make the difference in her election. Nevertheless, she’s courting women with aggressive appeals to improving child care. Our presidents, of course, can’t say out loud what they think about elections in Germany or anywhere else in the world, but the diplomatic gossip persists that a trans-Atlantic relationship between Chancellor Merkel and President Bush could be a romance like the one Margaret Thatcher had with Ronald Reagan. We’re a long way from St. Valentine’s Day, but stranger things have happened.
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