It's the cars stupid

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Dear Reader,

In the end, who becomes the next mayor of Berlin could be decided by as few as 140 votes.

That’s not because the race for first in Sunday’s state election was tight. On a day when voter turnout was low, the CDU won with an unexpectedly large share of 28 percent. The SPD and Green were way behind on 18 percen…