French Presidential Election 22 April 2007 Thread

[Colin]

Come on Sarkozy!

[Colin]

What is Le Pen polling right now and that other far right guy?

[Colin]

CSA poll

17-18 oct 2006, 838
last csa poll: sept 06


Laguiller:4 (-)
Besancenot: 4 (-1)
Buffet:3 (=)

Voynet: 2 (-1)

Royal: 32 (+1)

Bayrou: 7 (+1)

Sarkozy: 31 (+1)

De Villiers: 2 (-1)

Le Pen: 15 (=)

Turnout: 68% (+1)

Le Pen's up to 15% I see. Last time I checked he was at 12% or so.

ANy second round data?

[Colin]

SCA?

I knew French politics could be rather arcane, but I never knew that the Society for Creative Anachronism did French polls.

Baron Nicolas of Sarkozy hath recieved 26% of the lots in our most lordly poll of the Frankish kingdom. Lord Francois the Lawgiver hath increased his goodly vote to nearly betwixt Baron Nicolas and Lady Segeline.

[Colin]

No way is Le Pen going to get over 20% of the vote. The highest that he could ever achieve, in my mind, is about 18% or 19%. I think that's really the upper level for the far right.

[Colin]

"We want to help you get out of these suburban ghettos where French politicians have parked you . . . only to call you scum later," Mr. Le Pen said, reading from prepared remarks to a small audience of locals and two busloads of journalists.

lol.

LOL, yes he would get them out of there by deporting them. I guess that would be getting them out of the ghettos.

[Colin]

I can't believe that nearly half of the electorate is still undecided. Is this common?

They aren't truely undecided. France has a long tradition of people abstaining from mentioning their preference in an election to pollsters. That's why you always see such large numbers who abstained from answering the question. It seems that in this poll they included those who did state that they were undecided.

[Colin]

First Round in 12 days.

My familiy is voting at the embassy in Riyadh.

Did you live in France before moving to Saudi Arabia?