SARKOZY 54.5% - ROYAL 45.5% : EARLY OFFICIAL RESULTS : RECORD TURNOUT(Royal Concedes per FNC)

FRENCH BLOGGER outside France, FReeper drzz: ^ | May 6 2005 1:45 PM | drzz

[RedDogzRule]

did I write check thumping? I meant CHEST thumping...

[Atlantic Friend]

A wise move for the Socialists would be to put Strauss-Kahn in charge, as he would get support from the Centrists. As for the extreme-left, it has shrunk to the point it doesn’t really matter anymore how they vote, as long as they don’t vote for the Right.

[PGalt]

Thanks for your work on the keeping us informed throughout Cincinna.

Thanks for your contributions Atlantic Friend.

Great thread. Thanks to all.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Since I don’t speak Frog, I had to run your post through an online translator.

/shakes head.

Dang....

[Wrathswraith]

Considering the imbeciles that exercise the franchise in this country I'd prefer to keep things the way they are.

The fact that a racist lunatic like Charles Barron can be elected to the City Council is disturbing enough.

We don't need to encourage more of his supporters to engage in participatory democracy, trust me.

[RedDogzRule]

Sorry but we haven’t had a true conservative in the White House in the USA since Reagan. So much for our concept of what’s on the right.....

[Tolsti]

I also gotta wonder about the limited of polls, and having even multi-day voting. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad.

Bush won twice cause of two awful candidates he faced both times, lets face it. The dems and Bush were going back and forth poll wise and he got lucky that he hit the high points during both elections.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #10

Congratulations! Months of your hard work finally paid off.

[Wrathswraith]

The extreme left is pathetic.

The PCF toed the Stalinist party-line more closely than any other Communist party-with the exception of the CPUSA-when other EuroCommunists, like the PCI or the ones in Spain, were actually expressing doubts about the wisdom of totalistic Bolshevism.

The Greens are just a libertine, more Trotskyite version of the Communists, IMO.

These idiots should be working sugar cane fields, not trying to influence government policies, which I suppose is one of the limitations of bourgeois democracy.

[JewishRighter]

Just couldn't help thinking about the last time I thought about the French and friendship with Americans:

Renault: Major Strasser's been shot. Round up the usual suspects. Gendarme: Oui, mon Capitaine. Renault: Well, Rick, you're not only a sentimentalist, but you've become a patriot. Rick: Maybe, but it seemed like a good time to start. Renault: I think perhaps you're right. It might be a good idea for you to disappear from Casablanca for a while. There's a Free French garrison over at Brazzaville. I could be induced to arrange a passage. Rick: My letter of transit? I could use a trip. But it doesn't make any difference about our bet. You still owe me ten thousand francs. Renault: And that ten thousand francs should pay our expenses. Rick: Our expenses! Renault: Uh huh. Rick: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

[Atlantic Friend]

They are pathetic - in the sense they are now almost negligible.

In 1945, the French Communist Party commanded 25% of the vote. Think about it, one full quarter of the voters were ready to support a Stalinist party. Forty years later, the joke was that Beaujolais Nouveau had that big advantage over the Communist Party that it would always get 12.5%. In 2002 the French Communist Party only commanded 3.5% of the vote, and this time they barely managed 1.8%. Even the weakest beer or eggnog now beats the Communist Pary hands down.

The non-Communist Extreme-Left, which was supposed to be the next big thing after its good results in 1995 and 2002, shrank from 10% to 6-7%. The Greens, once able to deliver 11% of the vote, shrank to 1.7%.

On the Right, it’s the same situation. The small parties have been nearly annihilated. The National Front goes from 16% to 10%, while the “Sovereignist” party of de Villiers barely scores 2.5%.

If this trend continues, France will soon have only three meaningful parties : a “Socialist” one, a Centrist one, a Conservative one. We’ll be a bit like the UK or the US, only with a Centrist Party able to get governmental status.

[Joan Kerrey]

I can’t see why so Freepers care about this. Sorry. ============= We see hope where none was.

[Heatseeker]

Hey Norman, I see you're from Maryland. A little trivia:

As you know Sarkozy is often compared to Napoleon, partly for being foreign-born. (He isn't the first since old Boney; Paul Deschanel, who was President for a few months in 1920 during the Third Republic, has that honor). Note that Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was born in Koblenz, now in Germany, but between the wars it was occupied by France, and for the same reason, Ségolène Royal would also not have qualified had she won, since she was born in Senegal while under French colonial rule, but that's blessedly beside the point now).

As Marylanders we have special reason to be proud of Sarko-as-Bonaparte, since that family is closely associated with Baltimore.

[Steve Van Doorn]

No I have been avoiding France. They have been scaring me in the same since as the stepford waves. I really hope things change there.

[Joan Kerrey]

Why do they hold their elections on Sundays?

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Makes sense to me. Why don’t we should be the question.
Our election turn out numbers are sad. Too many productive voters just find it difficult to vote on a Tuesday. Work 10 to 11 hours, pickup the kids from wherever, get home to fix dinner, clean up and get the kids to bed. Why not do it on a day when there is free time?

[JewishRighter]

Ya’ know, the Statue of Liberty was a very nice gift from the French. I love it. I bet most good Americans love it. But, I tell you what: if the French give us back the lives of the 10’s of thousands of Americans who bailed their butts out in two world wars and the billions of dollars we’ve spent keeping them safe through 50 years of the cold war, they can have the Statue back.

[StolarStorm]

I was there in October. They don't hate us. As one other poster said, if you treat them with respect they treat us with respect.

I found the French to be more pro American than the British, oddly. We only hear from the whacky French left, not the right as they are too busy like most of us to complain about the evil Americans.

The huge turnout in this election and the LARGE victory for Sarkozy shows that the French are more like us then we have been led to believe by the media. They have a lot of history with the Muslims that we don't have. They know they wouldn't survive long with Royale and her type in charge.

[JewishRighter]

Now, here's the actual screenshot I was looking for:

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

[RedDogzRule]

Ahhhh, after a hard day’s work, she’s very easy on the eyes! Now that Sarkozy’s won, I can enjoy French wine again and be able to ogle the nice looking French women again, without feeling guilty!

[StolarStorm]

You only say that because you haven’t been to France. You only hear about their whiners just like here in the states. The quiet right have spoken in this latest election.