SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz smells morning air.
Things are looking up, he said.
His party still remains at 16 percent in the polls.
In the constituency of Aurich Emden, the SPD is still a people's party.
No other party there has won a direct mandate for the Bundestag since the Second World War.
Four years ago, almost every second person voted for the SPD man Johann Saathoff.
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On the way with shrimp fishermen and car manufacturers, we try to find out what makes the SPD so successful here, what the party in the federal government can learn from here - and what makes the people in East Frisia tick before the general election.
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