Here’s a sample opinion poll showing the trends as of May 3. Emmanuel Macron’s lead over Marine Le Pen is 20% and has been at that value for a week.
The accompanying story (in French) is interesting for what it illustrates about French politicking versus American. The two candidates savaged one another in their recent debate.
The runoff election takes place this coming Sunday.
60-40 against a neo-nazi seems weak.
And represents progress since 2003.
Your reaction is the same as mine.
Just as in the US election, the frontrunner Fillon failed to succeed due to alleged corruption.
Marine Le Pen with decades of political experience and a well embedded party in French society, in the run-off against a novice politician with NO party.
Remarkable in the French election the failure of the establishment represented by the socialists PS and the Republicans parties to be in the second round.
Only interesting bit on Sunday will be the level of blank votes or abstentions.
comme ci, comme ça
The difference is Macron is not Clinton circa ’16, but Obama ’08.
So Macron has distance from the establishment in way others didn’t.
You can run that race once. But twice?