On 21 sept. 2009, at 20:35, Ira Glazer wrote:
> Also, contrary to all the propaganda about Sarkozy having been
> elected with
> the vote of young people who were 'fed up with the French economic
> model, and wanted a more Anglo-Saxon one',
Where did you find that ? I'm curious.
> an analysis of the election
> results showed that the demographic that gave Sarkozy his victory were
> the elderly (especially in rural areas, if I remember correctly),
> precisely due to Sarkozy's emphasis on national identity and
> 'Frenchness'.
Indeed, it was crystal clear right after the election was over that hadn't it been for the elderly he would have lost to Royal.
Jean-Christophe Helary