Here's Angela Merkel's closing ad for Sunday's federal election:
A CDU friend from the key-marginal North Rhine-Westphalia Länder made the following assessment of the ad:
"Brilliantly done. It's exactly her style and she talks about things people say of her, putting them into a constructive framework. CDU core values, down to earthness, excellent. Humbleness but stating achievements"
There's no doubt that this election is going down to the wire: a Forsa poll published this morning has the CDU/CSU and liberal FDP just one point (48%) ahead the SPD, Grüne/Bundnis 90 and Linke (47%).
