--- Brad DeLong <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
Capital must not do so with
>
> I presume that the first line of the communique is
> misprinted? That
> she *is* calling for abstention?
>
>
> Brad DeLong
I looked again. That is what she says, so I am not going to change it. It seems to me like LO is saying that while they can not endorse Chirac and think it is a mistake, neither are they going to call for an abstention per se. What LO and LCR seem to be working for is a reduction of the number of workers that vote for Le Pen. A Lou Paulsen-AOL-Liberation exit poll that I read on Liberation had 26 percent of those polled and describing themselves as working class had voted for Le Pen.
I dont know how accurate that poll was but there can be little doubt that Le Pen has a base among the working class and some of the less fortunate social classes in France.
-Thomas
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