On Mar 6, 2011, at 3:39 PM, SA wrote:
> No, Marine LP can't win. The poll shows she could get into the second round, where she'll be massively defeated. It would be a repeat of 2002, in other words.
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> Second, on the whole, political discourse in France has clearly moved left since the crisis, not to the right.
A Facebook friend of mine - a Serb living in Paris - is far more worried than you and says she experiences racist shit every day as soon as anyone hears her accent.
Regardless of whether she wins or loses, the effect will be to force the mainstream parties to embrace Xenophobia Lite, no?
Doug