Social Democrats projected to win north German state vote

Christian Democrats’ top candidate for the Lower Saxony state elections Bernd Althusmann reacts after fist exit polls are publsihed in Hannover, Germany, Dunday, Oct. 15, 2017. The center-left Social Democrats are projected to win a vote in Germany’s northern state of Lower Saxony. Initial projections by public broadcaster ARD put the Social Democrats of governor Stephan Weil ahead with 37.5 percent of the vote, ahead of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats with 35 percent. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)