HAMBURG - Forget Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his conservative challenger Angela Merkel. While grown-ups are undecided as to who should lead the country, German children say there is only one guy who can save the nation - Spongebob Squarepants.
Schroeder's Social Democrats and Merkel's Christian Democrats only got about 35 per cent of the vote each in the recent general election, leaving Germany in a political quagmire.
But Spongebob got 88 per cent of the vote among kids aged 3-13 sponsored by Nick TV, a German-language subsidiary of Nickelodeon which launched a new national network earlier this month.
Schroeder and Merkel enjoy recognition rates of more than 80 per cent among Germans over age 16. But in the 13-and-under age group, Spongebob's big-eyed yellow face has a 90 per cent recognition factor.
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