Voting begins in France d'Amérique
The voters in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon began voting today, for the first time before the voters in Metropolitan France.
Le Soir (a Belgian paper and therefore free to publish polling data) has the latest polls by Sofres, IPSOS, IFOP and CSA. All four show Le Pen (National Front) steady at between 10% 15% , the same showing the National Front has had for the past four months, and all four show François Bayrou, the surprise center-right candidate of the Union Democratic Francais, down from a peak of 24% in the first week of March to between 15% and 20%.
The Friday polling data, which can't be published in France under the STFU rule on media manipulation of the election, shows Sarkozy and Royal winning the first round, with the widely anticipated Sarko over Royal outcome of the second round.
Tant pis pour la gauche. The wrong candidate won the primary, triangulation and not knowing what to do before polling data arrives simply isn't very galvanizing.