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My daughter, currently studying in Aix-en-Provence, is doing a school project about Sarkozy. She thought to do vox pops interviews on the street, but had such bad reactions that she abandoned them. She couldn't find anyone but an 11 year old girl who had anything to say except splutter in anger. The 11 year old thought he was cute.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Nov 16th, 2008 at 11:34:25 AM EST

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What is she studying - Gov PR ? :-) If not, sounds like a very interesting set of responses - should be recorded for posterity. But, after the first splutters, couldn't she persuade them to explain why they felt like that ?

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Sun Nov 16th, 2008 at 12:36:11 PM EST
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Art History and French. The project was supposed to be a week spent immersed in the colloquial language ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Nov 16th, 2008 at 01:56:38 PM EST
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Maybe she should have offered them something visual - like this, relating to the notorious Danish cartoons and raising isuses about freedom of visual expression: "Sarkozy doesn't appreciate caricature":

http://www.blogapart.info/index.php?blog_start=6

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Sun Nov 16th, 2008 at 02:43:08 PM EST
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Could she find anybody who voted for him, or is nobody willing to admit to this anymore?

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Sun Nov 16th, 2008 at 02:10:55 PM EST
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She simply said she was doing a survey on Sarkozy for a school project and that's when they began to splutter ;-) I don't think she got as far as asking them how they voted.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Nov 16th, 2008 at 02:42:07 PM EST
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Finding people who voted for Sarkozy and UMP shouldn't be hard at all in Aix. I lived several years there a while back: it's a rather upscale college town and voters tend to be on the conservative side...

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Sun Nov 16th, 2008 at 02:43:25 PM EST
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She is doing this in Aix en Provence ? Come on, that's as UMP a town as there is !

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sun Nov 16th, 2008 at 04:07:24 PM EST
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