EXTRA: Exit polls show big loss for Merkel party in regional vote

Berlin (dpa) - Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s Christian Democrats plunged to 26 per cent in a German regional election Sunday in North Rhine Westphalia state, two television exit polls showed.Merkel‘s main rivals, the Social Democrats (SPD), won 38 to 39 per cent of the votes, securing their control of the state government in alliance with the Green Party (12 per cent), according to the