This is sooo good.
I would have said great example for democracy if two out of four weren't Far Left/Far Right.Wow I have never seen an election in a presidential country where 4 candidates got ~20%
And yet it went from a 0.64 difference at 83% of the votes to 0.44 with 86% of the votes.
2002's first round was better, nobody topped 20%:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,_2002#Results
2002's first round was better, nobody topped 20%:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,_2002#Results
I would have said great example for democracy if two out of four weren't Far Left/Far Right.
Sorry, i'll do it in french if you can read it :
Je suis du nord-est, avec des grands parents ouvriers polonais que je suspecte par ailleurs de voter FN. C'est simple : la mort de l'industrie a tué une partie de la région. C'est un coin qui vivait grâce à ses usines, ses hauts-fourneaux etc., qui non seulement offraient de l'emploi direct mais aussi "indirect" (de nombreux bisrots etc autour des usines, qui ont tous fermé aujourd'hui). Ballade toi dans les coins autour de thionville, on a l'impression de voir des villes fantômes.
Mon grand père a voté communiste une bonne partie de sa vie, quand il travaillait et qu'une solidarité ouvrière forte existait, que la classe ouvrière existait.
Aujourd'hui, le discours de la gauche est inaudible pour eux, multiculturalisme etc. Ça leur parle pas (en tant qu'immigrés, ils sont venus dans l'optique de s'intégrer coûte que coûte, ils ont sincèrement l'impression d'un deux poids deux mesures entre eux et l'attention dont la gauche fait preuve vis à vis des populations maghrébines, de l'islam (y a évidement beaucoup de fantasmes)).
Voilà, c'était la version très condensée, si ça peut t'aider...
Si le sujet t'intéresse je te conseille de lire l'excellent livre (vraiment) Retour sur la condition ouvrière de S. Beaud et M. Pialoux, deux sociologues qui ont vu avant les autres la montée du FN chez les ouvriers.
Sorry for the french.
I challenge people to read the BBC profile of Le Pen and come away with the idea she is totally racist anti-Semitic and hard right wing:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/marine_le_pen
She is nationalist and she is anti EU and she is too generous to Putin and she is tougher on mass Muslim immigration or mass any immigration. All true.
But I think Trump is far FAR worse In terms of stupidity but also how far right he is. Le Pen isn't out to demolish the state and social services, or be a military adventurist, she would be soundly rejected by the GOP if she was trying to run in the USA.
1981 also saw Giscard 28%, Mitterand 26% (won in second round), Chirac 18%, Marchais 15%In 1995 IIRC, Jospin 23, Chirac 21, Balladur 19 and Le Pen 15
2007 and 2012 with only two big candidates over 26 were something elese
But since there's the run-off you have every incentive to try and get your closest guy to the run-off and then if they fail, fall back on second or third choice.It is strange given that the presidential system has a bias towards two strong parties given to the alliances to reach the ballotage.
Results like this looks like from a parliamentary system.
2002's first round was better, nobody topped 20%:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,_2002#Results
I voted Macron and will vote again against Marine Le Pen in the second round but I've always said that the two big parties are responsible for the rise of the front national.
It's the same in Austria too lol. Though we've had the FPÖ in government before with the conservatives, and all they did was chop away at welfare, healthcare and education, while embarrassing Austria internationally and also filling their own pockets, which eventually led to one of the biggest corruption scandals in Austria.
Yet everyone's forgotten about it.
Has there been any polling for the parliamentary elections?
Sorry, i'll do it in french if you can read it :
Je suis du nord-est, avec des grands parents ouvriers polonais que je suspecte par ailleurs de voter FN. C'est simple : la mort de l'industrie a tué une partie de la région. C'est un coin qui vivait grâce à ses usines, ses hauts-fourneaux etc., qui non seulement offraient de l'emploi direct mais aussi "indirect" (de nombreux bisrots etc autour des usines, qui ont tous fermé aujourd'hui). Ballade toi dans les coins autour de thionville, on a l'impression de voir des villes fantômes.
Mon grand père a voté communiste une bonne partie de sa vie, quand il travaillait et qu'une solidarité ouvrière forte existait, que la classe ouvrière existait.
Aujourd'hui, le discours de la gauche est inaudible pour eux, multiculturalisme etc. Ça leur parle pas (en tant qu'immigrés, ils sont venus dans l'optique de s'intégrer coûte que coûte, ils ont sincèrement l'impression d'un deux poids deux mesures entre eux et l'attention dont la gauche fait preuve vis à vis des populations maghrébines, de l'islam (y a évidement beaucoup de fantasmes)).
Voilà, c'était la version très condensée, si ça peut t'aider...
Si le sujet t'intéresse je te conseille de lire l'excellent livre (vraiment) Retour sur la condition ouvrière de S. Beaud et M. Pialoux, deux sociologues qui ont vu avant les autres la montée du FN chez les ouvriers.
Sorry for the french.
I would have said great example for democracy if two out of four weren't Far Left/Far Right.
Good fucking lord, this has to be a joke.Can't help but put my tinfoil hat on and wonder if Mélenchon was a late attempt from Putin to derail Macron... and damn, it almost worked.
He appeared right after it became obvious that Macron was the one to beat and has syphoned away a lot of votes from Macron in second round polls, although it also took away support from Le Pen.
89% of the vote in
Macron - 23.49%
Le Pen - 22.13%
Fillon - 19.78%
Melenchon - 19.40%
Hamon - 6.18%
6.18% is just so bad.
I would have said great example for democracy if two out of four weren't Far Left/Far Right.
I would have said great example for democracy if two out of four weren't Far Left/Far Right.
Yep. Hamon deserved better.
Does he have any chance of being the nominee for the next election? It seems like during a more normal election he would have done well.
Odds of Le Penn winning?
Average poll saw Clinton win with +2%. She got +2% of the popular vote.
Brexit polls were constantly skimming the 50/50.
How anyone can think that Le Pen is able to make up 26% in two weeks or the AfD achieve 51% up from their 10% is beyond me.
"But see what happened with Brexit and Trump" really doesn't cut it.
And with saying polls are useless you directly play into the hands of the far-right.
Sorry, i'll do it in french if you can read it :
Je suis du nord-est, avec des grands parents ouvriers polonais que je suspecte par ailleurs de voter FN. C'est simple : la mort de l'industrie a tué une partie de la région. C'est un coin qui vivait grâce à ses usines, ses hauts-fourneaux etc., qui non seulement offraient de l'emploi direct mais aussi "indirect" (de nombreux bisrots etc autour des usines, qui ont tous fermé aujourd'hui). Ballade toi dans les coins autour de thionville, on a l'impression de voir des villes fantômes.
Mon grand père a voté communiste une bonne partie de sa vie, quand il travaillait et qu'une solidarité ouvrière forte existait, que la classe ouvrière existait.
Aujourd'hui, le discours de la gauche est inaudible pour eux, multiculturalisme etc. Ça leur parle pas (en tant qu'immigrés, ils sont venus dans l'optique de s'intégrer coûte que coûte, ils ont sincèrement l'impression d'un deux poids deux mesures entre eux et l'attention dont la gauche fait preuve vis à vis des populations maghrébines, de l'islam (y a évidement beaucoup de fantasmes)).
Voilà, c'était la version très condensée, si ça peut t'aider...
Si le sujet t'intéresse je te conseille de lire l'excellent livre (vraiment) Retour sur la condition ouvrière de S. Beaud et M. Pialoux, deux sociologues qui ont vu avant les autres la montée du FN chez les ouvriers.
Sorry for the french.
Can't help but put my tinfoil hat on and wonder if Mélenchon was a late attempt from Putin to derail Macron... and damn, it almost worked.
He appeared right after it became obvious that Macron was the one to beat and has syphoned away a lot of votes from Macron in second round polls, although it also took away support from Le Pen.
Odds of Le Penn winning?
I know what you're saying but you don't have millions of people living in poverty in Austria or wave after wave of terrorism while the list of radical homegrown elements that could blow up at anytime keeps growing and growing. It's definitely not the same situation.
Sadly in France we're stuck between the naive left who doesn't want to put words on the problem or the fascist and racist right who just wants to ruin everything for everyone. So we're stuck in the status quo and shit keeps getting worse.
Odds of Le Penn winning?
Yep. Hamon deserved better.
Does he have any chance of being the nominee for the next election? It seems like during a more normal election he would have done well.
Nah. Melenchon benefited from a grassroots movement and from a transfer of voters from Hamon and the socialist party to his movement.
He also had the best campaign and was considered the most convincing at every televised debate.
I feel like he could have done a better score if not for his ties to dictatorships/failed states like Venezuela, Cuba etc... and his love for dictators.
Le Pen has a greater-than-zero-percent chance of becoming president because obviously she's one of two people on the ballot, but I would guess her actual odds are fairly low given how good the polling was in the first round and how poorly she polls against Macron in the second round.
France's National Assembly is made up of single-member constituencies like the U.S. House. It's not PR or even mixed.Has there been any polling for the parliamentary elections?
First round:
UPM - 30.4%*
DVD - 26.9%*
Socialist - 22.1%*
National Front - 5.3%
Centrist - 4.7%
DVD - 3.0%
Green - 3.0%
Communist - 2.1%
Pirate - 1.3%
RPG - 0.5%
Second round:
DVD - 39.4%
UPM - 38.4%
Socialist - 22.2%
I'd be surprised if Macron does less than 60%.
France's National Assembly is made up of single-member constituencies like the U.S. House. It's not PR or even mixed.
Oh we certainly have plenty of poverty in Austria - not as bad as France, but it definitely is there. And yes, of course it's not target of terrorism, but that's mostly cause Austria is just small and insignificant. Yet the same racist sentiment is festering, especially now after the refugee crisis - Austria was one of those countries that got the brunt of the refugee waves and a big chunk of those trying to get to Germany but couldn't get there for various reasons.
So like, of course the situation is not exactly the same, but there's similarities, especially in regards to the 2 big parties simply picking their noses and being completely frozen in inaction, keeping the status quo that slowly but surely is letting the country slide down the shitter, while bickering like children and trying to blame each other, although they constantly are blockading each other; the conservatives more so than the social democrats, but neither are free of blame.
It seems that the social democrats here are starting to wake up and recognize that they have made mistakes and need to modernize, but the conservatives are sticking to their guns and act as if they're completely free of any sort of blame - and I sincerely hope they're gonna eat crow soon.
Can't help but put my tinfoil hat on and wonder if Mélenchon was a late attempt from Putin to derail Macron... and damn, it almost worked.
He appeared right after it became obvious that Macron was the one to beat and has syphoned away a lot of votes from Macron in second round polls, although it also took away support from Le Pen.
Edit: God damn, polls look like they'll be spot on, with less than a 1% variance. Especially that Ipsos exit poll.
How did the French get to have such good polling? Has Nate talked about this?
But since there's the run-off you have every incentive to try and get your closest guy to the run-off and then if they fail, fall back on second or third choice.
The U.S. system informally does this through the party primaries.
The polling was very close. I'm quite impressed.
Haven't followed this at all. Are the results (Macron leading) good all things considered ?
A generic ballot poll for the entire nation is worth even less than the Generic Congressional poll because of the run-off round.Yeah, I know, but even a generic ballot poll can give a look at where things might stand.
Putin doesn't give a shit to have a direct puppet, he wants to weaken the EU and western countries influence.Also I have to disagree on Putin using Mélenchon as a puppet. If you have information, please share. Otherwise it's just another smear campaign or just a bad hypothesis.
It takes a particularly demented mindset to make the case that Le Pen coming second means "Frexit" is around the corner. (being the Fail it's par for the course mind you)
All evening we're hearing from the media that the status quo and "elites" have been defeated. HOW?! Sure, the two principle parties failed to win but this election was a victory for moderate centrism of the sort that the establishment parties push in their platforms. Tonight was a rejection of the extremist, populist Alt-Right bullshit the media claims is taking over the West.
Haven't followed this at all. Are the results (Macron leading) good all things considered ?
That is how Australia's House is elected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_House_of_Representatives#Electoral_systemI'm from Argentina and the system of our presidential elections are kinda like France's(not identical though).
The problem I have with the system is that it promotes tactical voting if you are a supporter of a smaller party/candidate.
In regards of the parliamentary system I don't like that you could spend months or years without government if things go wrong.
I would love to have a presidential system with Maine's ranked elections.
But political elites will never support something like that.
A generic ballot poll for the entire nation is worth even less than the Generic Congressional poll because of the run-off round.
Can't help but put my tinfoil hat on and wonder if Mélenchon was a late attempt from Putin to derail Macron... and damn, it almost worked.
He appeared right after it became obvious that Macron was the one to beat and has syphoned away a lot of votes from Macron in second round polls, although it also took away support from Le Pen.
Edit: God damn, polls look like they'll be spot on, with less than a 1% variance. Especially that Ipsos exit poll.
How did the French get to have such good polling? Has Nate talked about this?