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Lepen is down in the polls but they are starting to sweat bigtime. Voting already started today in the outlying provinces.
It's just the first round but there is fear that she will win 30% of the vote and it will start going downhill from there as they go into the final election. The official script has her getting in the low 20's or something like that. That's fine as long as everyone does what the pundits tell them they are supposed to do. Sometimes voters go off the reservation when you give them a little freedom, eh.
Regular viewers will recall that in the year-long lead-up to the american election I used to say that I put Trumps chances at about 35% but that Isis got a vote and if they did something outlandish right before the election it would move a lot of votes. And you will recall that Orange chronically chided me on that point and had a lot of fun with it- because he didn't get it. Problem in France today is that a lot of people there do get it- apparently they didn't get the memo from Orange saying that there was Zero Chance that Isis could do major damage right before an election.
It would be hard for LePen to win but it looks like it would not be hard for her to do well enough to cause some panic in the week or two between the two elections. They have parliamentary elections coming up too in about a month and her party does not have that many seats and is not expected to get more so I dont know how she could govern with that kind of set-up, but hey, that's their problem.
The French talk ballsy but they mostly worry about their pension funds and benefits in the end. That works against LePen because she wants to take France out of the euro and that would put their pensions back on some kind of dog-turd franc currency or something. Not what the pensioners who support LePen want to hear.
It will be one jazzed up continent and american financial market if she wins 30% of the vote though. I bet there will be some wine consumed tomorrow over there.
Presumably Isis will behave themselves during the election but you never know.
I bet the lefties in the US would love to have Melanchon, one of the french candidates run for office here. Check out this frigging tax rate and wrap your mind around it. That's right you heard me. 100%. What could go wrong there?
A fan of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Melenchon would like to tax individuals who earn 400,000 euros ($430,000) or more at a tax rate of 100 percent.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/21/fren...on-that-impacts-global-markets-for-weeks.html
Lepen is down in the polls but they are starting to sweat bigtime. Voting already started today in the outlying provinces.
It's just the first round but there is fear that she will win 30% of the vote and it will start going downhill from there as they go into the final election. The official script has her getting in the low 20's or something like that. That's fine as long as everyone does what the pundits tell them they are supposed to do. Sometimes voters go off the reservation when you give them a little freedom, eh.
Regular viewers will recall that in the year-long lead-up to the american election I used to say that I put Trumps chances at about 35% but that Isis got a vote and if they did something outlandish right before the election it would move a lot of votes. And you will recall that Orange chronically chided me on that point and had a lot of fun with it- because he didn't get it. Problem in France today is that a lot of people there do get it- apparently they didn't get the memo from Orange saying that there was Zero Chance that Isis could do major damage right before an election.
It would be hard for LePen to win but it looks like it would not be hard for her to do well enough to cause some panic in the week or two between the two elections. They have parliamentary elections coming up too in about a month and her party does not have that many seats and is not expected to get more so I dont know how she could govern with that kind of set-up, but hey, that's their problem.
The French talk ballsy but they mostly worry about their pension funds and benefits in the end. That works against LePen because she wants to take France out of the euro and that would put their pensions back on some kind of dog-turd franc currency or something. Not what the pensioners who support LePen want to hear.
It will be one jazzed up continent and american financial market if she wins 30% of the vote though. I bet there will be some wine consumed tomorrow over there.
Presumably Isis will behave themselves during the election but you never know.
I bet the lefties in the US would love to have Melanchon, one of the french candidates run for office here. Check out this frigging tax rate and wrap your mind around it. That's right you heard me. 100%. What could go wrong there?
A fan of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Melenchon would like to tax individuals who earn 400,000 euros ($430,000) or more at a tax rate of 100 percent.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/21/fren...on-that-impacts-global-markets-for-weeks.html
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