French Elections

[Newenglanddeac]

Looks like a runoff between the centrist Macron and far right Le Pen. Fillon just endorsed Macron which is big news.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

 

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[RaleighDevil]

Almost one in five voters cast ballots for the Communist Party-endorsed candidate.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

Solid insight Donnie.

 

[ONW]

Solid insight Donnie.

Great, now he even sucks at tweeting.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

Respect.

 

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[RJKarl]

What a shock that Trump likes dangerous lunatics like Le Pen and Erdowan!

 

[ImTheCaptain]

Marine is a cool name, though

 

[avalon]

Fear mongering seems to be the most effective away from terrorist targets.

 

[ImTheCaptain]

pollsters ignoring French Rubes, it would seem

 

[PhDeac]

Every country?

 

[tintinisahottie]

There's been quite a few terrorist attacks outside of Paris as well, unfortunately. Fascinating that a dude who started his own populist party a year ago and likes women 20 years his senior is the prohibitive favorite, like an alternate reality trump

 

[deacvision7]

CORRECT!

 

[ONW]

There's been quite a few terrorist attacks outside of Paris as well, unfortunately. Fascinating that a dude who started his own populist party a year ago and likes women 20 years his senior is the prohibitive favorite, like an alternate reality trump

+1

 

[PhDeac]

There's been quite a few terrorist attacks outside of Paris as well, unfortunately. Fascinating that a dude who started his own populist party a year ago and likes women 20 years his senior is the prohibitive favorite, like an alternate reality trump

Haha. Dude does seem like a high price to pay to avoid Le Pen.

I can understand hot for teacher more than I can whatever Scott Walker has going with his wife.

 

[vadimivich]

There's been quite a few terrorist attacks outside of Paris as well, unfortunately. Fascinating that a dude who started his own populist party a year ago and likes women 20 years his senior is the prohibitive favorite, like an alternate reality trump

The thing is, he's so fucking boring. He's a legitimate policy wonk and has absolutely no personality (which probably means he'll be better at governing than campaigning, which might be a positive). Even the German press has been mocking him for his boringness, and they view boring politicians as basically the ideal.

 

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[Newenglanddeac]

Some reports are coming out that Macron's campaign purposely gave hackers access to fake accounts and bogus info.