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Macron and Le Pen in French election run-off
BBC ^ | 5/7/2017 | BBC Staff

Posted on 05/07/2017 9:08:16 AM PDT by KC Burke

French voters are choosing their next president after an unpredictable campaign that has divided the country.

The second round contest pits centrist Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old former investment banker, against the far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen, 48.

The latest figures show voter turnout is sharply down on the past two presidential elections.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: france; franceelection; lepen; livefranceelection; macron
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To: KC Burke

They are saying Le Pen lost by 30-ish points. She lost bigly. France is lost...bigly


61 posted on 05/07/2017 11:03:15 AM PDT by R.I.chopper
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To: LydiaLong
The French won’t give up their beloved socialism.

They won't have to, no matter how they vote today.

62 posted on 05/07/2017 11:05:00 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: KC Burke

Live Feed is saying The Globalist is the predicted winner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ydto3Iyzic


63 posted on 05/07/2017 11:05:12 AM PDT by Mechanicos
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To: R.I.chopper

France 24 says Macron won by 65% of the vote. The polls closed five minutes ago. How can they say that? I smell a rat.


64 posted on 05/07/2017 11:05:55 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: R.I.chopper

Bloomberg TV showing Macron @ 65% of the vote. Polls closed 5 mins ago. They must have supersonic electronic voting only.....no paper votes??????????????


65 posted on 05/07/2017 11:06:50 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: tumblindice

Macaroon’s wife had three children, a son and two daughters. The youngest, the second daughter, was in the same class with boy-wonder, and the daughter asked her mother if she knew this kid in her class that “knew everything” or words to that effect.

Mommy got to know him real well and his parents tried to break it off by sending him to another school but he was now mesmerized and pledged his love to her to eventually be together. So all of his step children are his age or older.


66 posted on 05/07/2017 11:07:52 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: KC Burke

Beautiful the way the BCC managed to avoid any slant in their description of the contestants, isn’t it? “Centrist” and “far right nationalist” are terms just so lacking in any kind of propaganda or judgment, or attempt at influence.


67 posted on 05/07/2017 11:08:20 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Moltke

Your point, that Le Pen’s policies are socialist as well, is minor when faced with Islam and the EU.


68 posted on 05/07/2017 11:09:48 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: KC Burke

I just saw that he won with 65% of the vote. France/Netherlands and Europe will remain socialist until it becomes fully muslim.


69 posted on 05/07/2017 11:10:50 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: KC Burke

Looks like Macron won.........................boooooooooooooo


70 posted on 05/07/2017 11:12:01 AM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: shanover

The people are the ones that are doing it to themselves...I personally have never met one that didn’t live up to the negative stereotypes of the country, just not for being irrationally tolerant (until now).


71 posted on 05/07/2017 11:12:02 AM PDT by erlayman (yw)
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To: KC Burke

LE MACRO, BIG!

Book it ! No way the elites allow anyone else to win in the heartland of Rousseau.


72 posted on 05/07/2017 11:14:52 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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To: KC Burke

Yes, but the OP and my response did not concern those latter two points.


73 posted on 05/07/2017 11:19:20 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: EDINVA
This is so sad. So many Frenchman are now going to be raped, tortured, maimed and killed. Will they ever wake up? Are they going to want another Normandy invasion in five years? I think we should say no this time. Just damn.

The long term effect of cradle to grave brainwashing. We have to learn the lesson to not let it happen here. Thank God Trump was elected. With Hillary, Macron and Merkel we would really be in a Globalist death spiral.

Fight for Freedom!

74 posted on 05/07/2017 11:23:52 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: FenwickBabbitt

So Macron is married to pedophile child molester. What does that make him? A victim?


75 posted on 05/07/2017 11:35:49 AM PDT by TexasCruzin (Trump is the man. #TrumpPence16)
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To: TexasCruzin

Looks like both French Canadians with boy Trudeau and mother France’s new boy Macron show the Frenchy voters like their LeBoy leaders soft with a dash of good looks. Too bad the conservative French are so outnumbered by their lefty hacks. Enjoy the globalism terrorism on French soil.


76 posted on 05/07/2017 11:47:42 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: Art in Idaho

I told another poster that a friend insists that LaPen won by losing today. That in few years the French will come back begging for her, or another like her, albeit too late. Sad day in Europe, so no .. if they end up in trouble again, bigger than they have not, let them deal with it and not risk one American life.


77 posted on 05/07/2017 12:41:03 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Right_in_Virginia

https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/macron-merkel1.jpg


78 posted on 05/07/2017 12:49:28 PM PDT by Liz (Shutting down conservatives' free speech is a form of hate speech. samtheman)
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To: EDINVA
In a few years the French may want Le Pen, but what about all the pain and suffering that's going to happen in the meantime. How much is enough? Such a shame. Our cemeteries all across France and they don't care enough to save their own hides. This pic bears repeating:

We should all remember this pic for our own kids and grandkids in America. Eternal Vigilance. . .

79 posted on 05/07/2017 12:54:37 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Steven Scharf

I said “should have been in jail,” i.e. that’s what I think should have happened to her at the time. That has nothing to do with 20 years having passed now, nor the fact that French laws are different from ours. Macron’s said that she will be a big part of his administration, so what sort of woman she is is certainly relevant (and if he has some sort of “mommy complex,” well, that would clearly be relevant too).

Of course, they were in a relationship prior to his being 18 (and likely before he was 16), which is what freaked his parents out. I think it rather obviously must have started when they first met when he was 15 or soon thereafter, because why else would they refuse to say or even hint at when their relationship began when directly questioned? Why leave people to think the worst scenario, if it’s not true. If he wasn’t very young at the time, they would say so—and they won’t.

It’s fine that you don’t care at all about a 39-year-old woman sleeping with a 15-year-old student placed in her trust, but I still find that disturbing and revealing. And, fortunately, this sort of “teacher” does periodically go to jail in the U.S. I have no interest in following the French lead as far as their attitudes towards this sort of thing goes.


80 posted on 05/07/2017 1:14:32 PM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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