2017 French Presidential Election

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I figured that Macron's polling surge would prove to be temporary as he really is a paper tiger candidate but I never figured that a communist dinosaur would be the cause of this. To be fair, Melenchon appears to be drawing votes from all directions (?).  This election is bizarre.

Anyways, it's not terribly shocking that polling is very volatile in a year where both the PS and the LR are in a state of disarray. This has meant that both Le Pen and Macron have coalitions that are fairly diffuse; Le Pen has a solid core of supporters that's rather large but a non-negligible minority are from "neither left nor right" types who weren't FN supporters until recently. It goes without saying that Macron's coalition is very unstable. There's plenty of small-s socialists who were prepared to vote for him and loads of right-wingers who were prepared to do so.

I'm not sure why I posted this honestly. My point is that Melenchon probably has room to grow from Le Pen, Hamon and Macron. Time to hit the panic button if you're a neo-liberal. Hit the blunt if you're a true comrade and lover of communism.