I think there's good reason to predict the actual AfD vote will be higher - this is 20.5% who are willing to publicly declare their opposition to a regime that openly persecutes AfD and their supporters - but unless they end up with 51% of the vote everyone else is going to conspire to continue betraying Germany.
Unfortunately, this was the exit poll adjusted for actual vote counts. As you said, the exit poll was lower, but that may also be because its support is far greater in rural areas rather than big cities where it's more difficult to exit poll.
But it appears that the AfD has risen to 20.8%. Only a little bit disappointing as opposed to the relative gut punch that 19.5% was to me.
I think there's good reason to predict the actual AfD vote will be higher - this is 20.5% who are willing to publicly declare their opposition to a regime that openly persecutes AfD and their supporters - but unless they end up with 51% of the vote everyone else is going to conspire to continue betraying Germany.
Unfortunately, this was the exit poll adjusted for actual vote counts. As you said, the exit poll was lower, but that may also be because its support is far greater in rural areas rather than big cities where it's more difficult to exit poll.
But it appears that the AfD has risen to 20.8%. Only a little bit disappointing as opposed to the relative gut punch that 19.5% was to me.