France mobilised for election security after Paris attack

I hope better, rational, minds prevail there as opposed to the idiocy we have done.

I hope better, rational, minds prevail there as opposed to the idiocy we have done.

I think the French are a better informed and more politically engaged electorate than most. Rabble-rousing trash can't win the presidency here.

Rabble-rousing trash can't win the presidency here.

But... but, that's what we thought wouldn't happen in the US!!!! xD

For Macron it's a bit like facing real, bayern and barca in the pool stages knowing the final would be against a lesser opponent. Sunday will be his final, don't see him losing in the 2nd round (should he make it).

Can't wait for the first us-french summit. 70Yo trump and his 40 something wife alongside 40yo macron and his 64yo wife. Only in france can a bloke who met his wife when he was 15yo (she was 39) run for president.

Macron is a political cloth horse, an anything fits centralist, carries the minimum risk, pro EU. There is little or nothing disagreeable about the man. As former French finance minster he also did little or nothing to change an economy burdened with state intervention and high unemployment.  Look at the alternatives though?

The first round could present the surprises, or shock and awe, either way  only two will progress through. Could descend into  a political form of Russian roulette, with two extremes progressing to the final round, ok unlikely, however theoretically  Le Pen and Melenchon, could slip past on the rails. My money (literally) is on Macron and I am hedging Fillon.

Trump has given Le Pen an endorsement of sorts.

That should serve as a warning.

The Dutch rejected their trash right candidate and the French look likely to do the same. Looks like the rightist wave sweeping across the world ain't all it's cracked up to be.

I'm a supporter of Macron and I think he will win, but I also think Le Pen will do significantly better than the polls are suggesting.