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Sarko is winning because is prensented himself as a dynamic guys who want make changes.
5 or 10 years (presidents are often reelected) of Sarkozyms will probably wake up this bored france.
Are you saying that "a large part of the French want changes, whatever the changes" because France is "bored"? Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
i think a denounciation of his "BS" whould have deverved her as showing her as willing to keep the status quo, when a large part of the French want changes, whatever the changes.
I fail to see how exposing Sarko's drivel on "full employment" in the UK implies that no reform should be made in France, especially with respect to preparing against unfair competition in a globalizing world
He'd be winning because he is a demagogue who exploited the fears and insecurities of the elderly in a fast changing world. In fact, he would have no mandate from the active, vital population.
18-24 are always wrong, not a news, and at this moment they are lazy enough to dream only about being public workers.
AGE SR Sarko
The IFOP poll from April 28 contradicts this: Royal would win. were it not for the +65. by UnEstranAvecVueSurMer on April 29th, 2007. Bush is a symptom, not the disease.
I'd say they're likely to vote relatively more than younger voters.
the exit poll numbers (age group, Royal's %, Sarko's %):
There is now even less doubt that Sarko is the president of the retirees who were most sensitive to his security/anti-immigration propaganda. The IPSOS exit poll numbers ascribing the 24-35 age group to Sarko at 57% didn't make much sense, and the difference with this poll is so large (an 11 point difference) that one can only wonder what happened ...
If I am right that it means the elections were decided primarily by the security/immigration issues, it doesn't say much for the effectiveness of the declinist propaganda.
I note the unwillingness of the media to even mention the age divide in the vote. It seems the left should discuss this point as widely as possible before the legislatives.
One could make that case that on a nice spring day, younger voters are less likely to be at home answering the phone and presumably, an actual exit poll has a much lower margin for error since it gets a better (and larger) sample of actual voters, but simple common sense suggests an error in the IPSOS age cross-tabs.
Pure speculation and indeed false. Where did you get such figures from?
Chirac has been affraid by the leftists since May68, this period is going to an end, Sarko will be a non-ashamed Right-wing and one of the most, if not the most, important leader in Europe.
By the way, with the disappearance of Lepen, The left will find very difficult to get back in power.
It is really an new era.
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