A Conversation for The Role of the National Front in the 2002 French Presidential Elections
Oh the irony...
MotDoc, Temporarily Exiled to Tartu, Estonia Started conversation Nov 24, 2003
As a Yank, I happen to find it quite ironic that the "far right" National Front party in France holds many of the same views as the "moderate" Republican party in America. Anti-abortion, pro-death penalty, anti-homosexual, anti-immigrant: these are all positions which are taken unworriedly by President Bush the Younger yet in Europe they constitute a party so radical that the opposition got some 85% of the vote in the final round. Just goes to show you how relative politics can be.
-MotDoc 
Oh the irony...
quizzical Posted Nov 24, 2003
It helps you understand why so many of our allies find Bush so distasteful. Ditto a fair number of Americans - remember, he did lose the popular vote to Al Gore. High time to get rid of the electoral college.
Oh the irony...
MotDoc, Temporarily Exiled to Tartu, Estonia Posted Nov 24, 2003
Electoral college has nothing to do with it. He would have lost there too if his brother wasn't governor of the state with the really close vote. Wait...did I say that out loud?
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quizzical Posted Nov 24, 2003
I was thinking it - I just didn't say it. 
And now he behaves as if he'd been elected in a landslide...
Oh the irony...
MotDoc, Temporarily Exiled to Tartu, Estonia Posted Nov 24, 2003
Well he's not that good at math...maybe he thinks 49% is a landslide.
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