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Who the Hell Would Vote for Marine Le Pen?
The Daily Beast ^ | 3/17/2017 | Erin Zaleski

Posted on 03/20/2017 5:29:21 AM PDT by Spiridon

Five years ago Davy Rodriguez de Olivera couldn't have conceived of voting for Marine Le Pen.

The then teenager was a staunch young leftist who campaigned for the far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melanchon in the 2012 presidential elections, and proudly posted an image of a vintage Socialist Party poster on his Facebook account. Today, Rodriguez is 23 and the deputy director of the Front National de la Jeunesse (FNJ), the youth wing of Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; france; marinelepen
Will Marine Le Pen become the "Donald Trump de France"?

This story includes polling that shows a third of the farmers and over half the police officers in France supporting Le Pen in the election.

1 posted on 03/20/2017 5:29:21 AM PDT by Spiridon
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To: Spiridon
Who the Hell Would Vote for Marine Le Pen?

The 61% of French people who view the EU unfavorably?


2 posted on 03/20/2017 5:41:17 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Me.


3 posted on 03/20/2017 5:44:58 AM PDT by petercooper (Why don't polls ever add up to 100%?)
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To: Spiridon

Who the Hell Would Waste Time Looking at a Soros Leftwing Rag Like The Daily Beast?


4 posted on 03/20/2017 5:47:14 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Trump20162020

And that is from Pew (formerly Tribune Research and before that a division of the Chicago paper chain) so it is as skewed toards the EU as their election polls were skewed towards Hillary.


5 posted on 03/20/2017 5:51:23 AM PDT by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: MarvinStinson

They are taking Marine Le Pen seriously over there at the Leftist media site.

They are almost seeming to be nicer to her than the so-called “Conservative” media that call her an ‘atheist, socialist, anti-Semite’ and the list goes on.


6 posted on 03/20/2017 5:58:59 AM PDT by Spiridon
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I would. Especially if her niece would give me French lessons.


7 posted on 03/20/2017 6:25:36 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: Spiridon

Last time I checked, you are free to vote for anyone you want without interference.
Except over at HilltheBeast.


8 posted on 03/20/2017 7:21:23 AM PDT by Zathras
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