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Originally Posted by confirmedtroll
In my city (South east)
Le Pen 29
Fillon 21
Meluche/Macron 19
Hamon 4
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I'm quite surprised by this. I remember seeing a huge number of immigrants in Nice and Marseille. Is it that the immigrants in cities are outweighed by people living in Middle-of-nowhere, Provence or do immigrants have a lower voter turnout that native-born French citizens?
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Originally Posted by Shuffle
I think Mélenchon would have been the best choice, assuming his agenda would have been moderated by the National Assembly. Macron is going to be a neoliberal rubber stamp. The other choices are not worth commenting on for obvious reasons.
Many Trump supporters rationalized their vote for him assuming that Congress would moderate Trump's agenda. I know that their governments are not the same, but I wouldn't place much faith in them.
Mélenchon's support for a Frexit referendum and a NATO withdrawal would be enough to push me away from him if I was a French citizen. I wonder if Sanders would have espoused similar anti-establishment views on foreign policy if he had the opportunity to do so.
Last edited by SuperUberBob; 04-24-2017 at 08:27 AM.