[Neville72]

The French motivation to vote, Non, is much more pedestrian than some people think. The new constition was too "free-market oriented for them. French citizens said so over and over again when asked.

Having to become more competitive economically threated their precious guaranteed 6 week summer vacation running around naked on the nude beaches of Spain and Greece, their beloved 35 hour work week and the rest of their nanny-state socialism.

[goldstategop]

For all their supposed revolutionary pretensions, the French at heart are conservative. They don't like unfamiliar change. Better the system they know than a world in which they find themselves ill positioned to catch up.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)