French center right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy ahead of French Socialist Party candidate Segolène Royal 52% to 48%

I can't vote Socialist this time around. Segolène Royal's ideas are as
dead as Joe Stalin. The only reason the Party rolled her out is because
of her youth. Segolène hasn't got a chance, if elected she would be
the only head of state who lives with a man to whom she is not married.
She keeps her 4 ******* children hidden. If Segolène Royal sneers at
basic social institutions like marriage, what other treasured
institutions does she treat with disdain? Freedom of the press?
Ownership of property? Does she want to nationalize all private
industry? The socialist/communist record on this is pretty clear.
Today's France would be the North Korea of the E.U. if Royal were
elected. Sarko's my man!

Obviously another piggy forgery.

To set the record straight, I will vote for Sego, and all
the people I know will too. Sarko has some rough edges
he is trying to smooth right now.

At this stage of the election the polls mean little, especially
we don't know what Chirac will do. If he enters and splits
the right, the 2nd round might be Le Pen vs Sego!

As it is, Le Pen's polls are down a little since some of
the extreme right wingers are going with Sarko.

One thing for certain, I will be voting. I have the
same Carte Electorale since 2003, when it was renewed,
voting at the Centre Andre Malraux in the 6th.

We already voted in the US elections in November.
Vote early and often. :-)

Earl Evleth wrote:
Obviously another piggy forgery.

To set the record straight, I will vote for Sego, and all
the people I know will too. Sarko has some rough edges
he is trying to smooth right now.

At this stage of the election the polls mean little, especially
we don't know what Chirac will do. If he enters and splits
the right, the 2nd round might be Le Pen vs Sego!

I don't think the French will make the same mistake again. I would
expect the votes for minor candidates to be much smaller this time
around.

Magda if you subtract the 1-2 line snide comments from what you post,
you don't have jack **** to say. Comprendo?

Magda sounds like someone got under your skin (snicker)

Hey pops! You and Magda seem concerned. Should you be?
Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

On 18/01/07 15:26, in article
, "Iceman"
wrote:

I don't think the French will make the same mistake again. I would
expect the votes for minor candidates to be much smaller this time
around.


Too bad, in the first round one votes one's heart, the second
round the brain is engaged. We normally would have voted
Jospin, and then Jospin.

Voting for Chirac in the second round of the last Presidential's
in France was hard, very hard. The system needs corrections to
avoid such absurdities.

Of course, nothing is as bad as what occurred in 2000 in the USA.
That great nation still is in the 18th century with regard to
the electoral college.

Jospin after the election pulled a Nixon and left politics.
Nixon had the courage to come back. Too bad.

In article . com,
"Capitalist Pig" wrote:

Magda if you subtract the 1-2 line snide comments from what you post,
you don't have jack **** to say. Comprendo?

Stephen Bach, if you subtract the illiterate drool from what you post,
you'd not be posting at all.

--
Mr Q. Z. D.
Remove luncheonmeat (truncheon) to reply.
" Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain.
But when you put it in the body of a great white shark,
ooohh! Suddenly you've gone too far!"

Earl Evleth wrote:
On 18/01/07 15:26, in article
, "Iceman"
wrote:

I don't think the French will make the same mistake again. I would
expect the votes for minor candidates to be much smaller this time
around.

Too bad, in the first round one votes one's heart, the second
round the brain is engaged. We normally would have voted
Jospin, and then Jospin.

Not Gluckstein?

Voting for Chirac in the second round of the last Presidential's
in France was hard, very hard. The system needs corrections to
avoid such absurdities.

I like "Instant Runoff Voting", where you label your preferences 1
through 16 and there's no runoff. The candidate with the fewest 1
votes is eliminated, and the eliminated candidate's supporters' second
choices are counted as 1 votes. Then the next candidate with the
fewest 1 votes is eliminated, and so forth. It means that you are free
to support a minor candidate instead of your least disliked major
candidate, without worrying that your vote will be wasted or that your
minor candidate vote will help elect the major candidate you most
strongly oppose. In the last French election, almost all of the votes
for minor left parties would have gone to Jospin under Instant Runoff
Voting.

Of course, nothing is as bad as what occurred in 2000 in the USA.
That great nation still is in the 18th century with regard to
the electoral college.

Well, the US was the first modern democracy. The founders didn't have
the benefit of seeing what did and didn't work in other democracies
when designing the US government, and the delegates from New York,
Pennsylvania and Virginia had to make a compromise to win the support
of the smaller colonies.

Earl Evleth wrote:
On 18/01/07 15:26, in article
, "Iceman"
wrote:

I don't think the French will make the same mistake again. I would
expect the votes for minor candidates to be much smaller this time
around.

Too bad, in the first round one votes one's heart, the second
round the brain is engaged. We normally would have voted
Jospin, and then Jospin.

Not Gluckstein?

Voting for Chirac in the second round of the last Presidential's
in France was hard, very hard. The system needs corrections to
avoid such absurdities.

I like "Instant Runoff Voting", where you label your preferences 1
through 16 and there's no runoff. The candidate with the fewest 1
votes is eliminated, and the eliminated candidate's supporters' second
choices are counted as 1 votes. Then the next candidate with the
fewest 1 votes is eliminated, and so forth. It means that you are free
to support a minor candidate instead of your least disliked major
candidate, without worrying that your vote will be wasted or that your
minor candidate vote will help elect the major candidate you most
strongly oppose. In the last French election, almost all of the votes
for minor left parties would have gone to Jospin under Instant Runoff
Voting.

Of course, nothing is as bad as what occurred in 2000 in the USA.
That great nation still is in the 18th century with regard to
the electoral college.

Well, the US was the first modern democracy. The founders didn't have
the benefit of seeing what did and didn't work in other democracies
when designing the US government, and the delegates from New York,
Pennsylvania and Virginia had to make a compromise to win the support
of the smaller colonies.