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No one was lecture the Social Democrat (SPD) candidate for chancellor, whose blunders have sent his party into a tailspin in national opinion polls and will drag Stephan Weil, SPD candidate for state premier in Lower Saxony, to associate degree surprising defeat on Sunday. As Weil chatted and laughed with former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and ex-foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Steinbrueck place his hands in his pockets and searched vainly for somebody to speak to before the four marched into the hall. Steinbrueck spoke for simply ten minutes, whereas the opposite SPD leaders broken-backed the stage – or maybe simply helped the gaffe-prone Steinbrueck from grading a lot of own goals. In the four months since the SPD picked him to run against Angela Merkel, the party’s poll ratings have tumbled up to now it may value Weil what was once seen as sure success.