Our gal in Germany, Andrea Ypsilanti leads her charges to victory!

She helped her party give a huge setback to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats.

From Euro Newswires:

"But it is now clear that many voters felt uncomfortable with the CDU's hardline rhetoric and they delivered a severe blow to Chancellor Merkel's party, the BBC's correspondent says.

The SPD's Hesse leader, Andrea Ypsilanti, had appealed to left-wing voters during her campaign with calls for a national minimum wage and better schools.

"We fought for a different political culture, and we won," she said after the results were announced.

The balance of power in Hesse now lies with the smaller parties, the Greens, the liberal FDP and the Left Party and it is still not clear who will be able to form a coalition government."

Ypsi City Desk is not in the business of endorsing political candidates.....We WILL endorse THIS ONE

Andrea Ypsilanti is a German politician. She is the prime candidate of the SPD (Social Democratic Party) in the elections in Hesse (West Central Germany) 2008. She is a member of the Hessian parliament and has been head of the Hessian SPD since March of 2003.

GO ANDREA! Ypsi City Desk, without knowing the first thing about your politics will endorse your run this year.