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Assessment of parties and politicians. Attitude towards political issues. Topics: Most important political issues in Brandenburg; intention to participate in the state election; intended type of election (polling station or postal vote); party preference (first and second vote); security of one´s own voting decision; interest in the state election; importance of federal politics for one´s own voting decision at state level; voting behaviour in the last state election; coalition preference; opinion on participation of SPD, CDU, Die Linke, AfD, Greens and FDP in the state government; Sympathy Scale for selected parties at federal and state level (Split A); satisfaction with the performance of the state government from SPD and Die Linke, with the parties SPD as well as the Left Party as parts of the state government, the opposition parties CDU, AfD and Greens as well as the performance of the federal government from CDU/CSU and SPD (Scale, Split B); sympathy scale for the top politicians Andreas Kalbitz, Angela Merkel, Ingo Senftleben and Dietmar Woidke; party with the best or second best; political interest; Split A: preference for Dietmar Woidke or Andreas Kalbitz or for Dietmar Woidke or Ingo Senftleben as prime minister (Split B: preference for Dietmar Woidke or Ingo Senftleben or for Dietmar Woidke or Andreas Kalbitz); comparison of the credibility, sympathy and expertise of the two top politicians Woidke and Senftleben (Split A) and Woidke and Kalbitz (Split B); assessment of one´ s own economic situation, the economic situation of the federal state in general and in comparison with the other east German states; Split A: most competent party to solve the economic problems in the federal state, for a better infrastructure in the areas of fast internet, public transport, medical care and shopping facilities, in the area of school and education policy; Split B: in the areas of job creation, social justice and climate protection; party that is most likely to make...