France 2017: Results Thread

[Diouf]

Pretty stable.

I still doubt she'll get 40% in the end. Maybe not even 35%. I wonder if the debate tomorrow changes the polls. Macron will likely attack her on the plagiarized speech.

Isn't that just an appeal to Fillon voters basically? If she is to win, she clearly needs to get a lot more Fillon voters. She could hardly ask for better headlines than "Le Pen copies Fillon", I would think. If the media and Macron think this is a big attack point, they really should reconsider.

[Diouf]

   On most economic issues, is it fair to say that Le Pen is running to the left of Macron?  From what I've read this seems to be the case.  Of all the populist, anti-globalist European parties lumped in as "far-right" I wonder what others have had candidates running like this, i.e. strongly nationalist, but also on the left economically.
   Had it come to a Macron vs Melenchon runoff would Le Pen have endorsed Melenchon?

Isn't this pretty much more the standard than the exception at this point?

[Diouf]

Macron set to join ALDE. Okay, when you can't get Grillo, I guess...

http://www.lesoir.be/1496525/article/actualite/union-europeenne/2017-05-04/emmanuel-macron-rejoindra-famille-liberale-europeenne