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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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20. That is about where all our staff in Toulouse is at

Reply to DFW (Reply #12)

Sat Apr 22, 2017, 03:36 PM

Apr 2017

I would say most of them swing a little further to the right fiscally than the mainstream, but they're mostly supporting Macron because they don't want to see a run-off between LePen and Melenchon as far fetched as that is.

They believe that were Jacques Chirac not in such poor health he probably would have been pulled back in.

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Who do you want to win the French election? [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 OP

LMMFAO @ Marine Le Trump... ADX Apr 2017 #1

Personally, I prefer Marine Le Putin meow2u3 Apr 2017 #10

I like what you did there. Kentonio Apr 2017 #19

Boeuf Bourguignon DavidDvorkin Apr 2017 #2

Jacques Clouseau. dchill Apr 2017 #31

Macron is a con and a neocon Ghost Dog Apr 2017 #3

Yo momma retrowire Apr 2017 #4

La Momma! grossproffit Apr 2017 #29

Jean-Luc Mlenchon mvd Apr 2017 #5

Jean-Luc Melenchon wants to pull out of NATO and the EU. I can't abide by that. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 #6

I can live with his stance on that since I agree with.. mvd Apr 2017 #7

I respect your opinion. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 #8

I agree about NATO mvd Apr 2017 #9

I like Hamon. He's my second choice. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 #11

I'm in France once a week for work, and my French friends tell me DFW Apr 2017 #12

I know Obama is tacitly supporting Macron. I trust his judgment. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 #13

Usually, so do I. Maybe Obama knows Macron. I don't DFW Apr 2017 #14

So the "smart money" is that Macron and LeTrump end up in a run off which Macron wins? DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 #15

No one is being smart, at least not in Paris DFW Apr 2017 #16

The urban/rural divide is universal. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 #17

True, but I was thinking about France's other big cities DFW Apr 2017 #18

That is about where all our staff in Toulouse is at Sen. Walter Sobchak Apr 2017 #20

They probably have it right DFW Apr 2017 #22

I think what they want is their very own Angela Merkel Sen. Walter Sobchak Apr 2017 #24

The French would kill to have "effective, stable and boring." DFW Apr 2017 #25

France is in a position with no great candidates. tammywammy Apr 2017 #21

I would like to support Mlenchon, but I've read he is anti-immigration? Starry Messenger Apr 2017 #23

Macron grossproffit Apr 2017 #26

Hell no to both Melenchon & Le Pen grossproffit Apr 2017 #27

I don't care for any of them, probably very much like the French, themselves Warpy Apr 2017 #28

Sanity, in whatever form that will take. WinkyDink Apr 2017 #30

Definitely Macron. roamer65 Apr 2017 #32