French poll: Macron leads Le Pen by 24 points in runoff as also-rans unite behind him

Hot Air ^ | April 24, 2017 | Allahpundit

[C19fan]

Not quite all the also-rans, I should say. Jean-Luc Melenchon, the communist, said today he’d offer no endorsement for the runoff, but both Francois Fillon, the center-right candidate, and Benoit Hamon, the socialist, are behind Macron. So is the current president, Francois Hollande, although that’s no surprise. Macron was one of his advisors.

[C19fan]

People like to talk about eliminating the electoral college, We would become like France where the two candidates in the run-off combined did not get to 50%.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Looks like France wants to commit cultural suicide after all.

[SkyDancer]

Like the US polls that had Trump - Hillary running close with sometimes Hillary ahead.

[LS]

It’s going to be tough, but given polling biases, if Le Pen gets this at under 10, she has a real shot.

[vladimir998]

I have to admit that I can’t see how LePen can win.

[rickomatic]

I find it comical that the national news on the radio today (I think ABC radio network) is saying that today’s stock market rise is because LaPen might lose. Where the hell do they get that, and even more importantly, who the hell believes that?

[Timpanagos1]

“We would become like France where the two candidates in the run-off combined did not get to 50%.”

Emmanuel Macron 24%

Marine Le Pen 21.3%

[vette6387]

“Looks like France wants to commit cultural suicide after all.”

Yeah, the stock in their “white flag factory” has just gone up!

[vette6387]

“Looks like France wants to commit cultural suicide after all.”

Yeah, the stock in their “white flag factory” has just gone up!

[DannyTN]

I don’t think we know what France wants yet. But we know who the press wants.

[jdsteel]

The French Revolution part deaux. I wonder if the next Statue of Liberty will look like Trump?????

[gibsonguy]

Hard to imagine Polls being off by 24 points. Melenchon knows endorsing Macron would actually help LePen. France will continue its drive into the abyss it would seem.

[mrmeyer]

They get it from the hole through which to their brains are located.

[lodi90]

Like the US polls that had Trump - Hillary running close with sometimes Hillary ahead.

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You are dreaming. It’s not at all like that. The frogs are already boiled. RIP France.

[old-ager]

I wonder if the French would elect any female.

[boycott]

Emmanuel Macron, 39, wife Brigitte Trogneux, 64 --

[boycott]

Sealed with a kiss! Shock French Presidential favorite Emmanuel Macron, then 15, kisses the teacher, 40, who would later become his wife

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4438296/At-age-17-Emmanuel-told-d-marry-me.html

[Billthedrill]

Bear in mind that the media in France are even more establishment than they are in the United States, and are unleashing the same sort of drum-pounding mendacity that we saw turned on Trump in this country. There will be fake polls, Newspeak, well-funded rallies, television commentators earnestly informing the country that Le Pen is Mussolini in a skirt and whose scripts are written and coordinated by opposition partisans. That's just how it is.

Recall the MSNBC board listing, state by state, Hillary's 80/20 insurmountable lead? It's on THIS CLIP for anyone who wants one more laugh at hubris. Strap in and crack an adult beverage, because it's going to be a bumpy ride in France.

[butlerweave]

If Macron wins the Muslims will celebrate with another slaughter

[miss marmelstein]

I was just thinking the same thing. And it speaks well for the 2nd Party system. We still do something right!