Talk Elections

Qui a votre vote?

Voting closes here on the April 22nd. I'll do a run-off for whoever comes first and second here on Atlas (if we need one, naturally).

Thanks, we needed a version with all the candidates.

You guys all know who gets my vote. ;)

Francois Hollande -whatever else I may disagree with him on, I agree with him on this one important issue: that to strengthen the euro (and the European Union as a whole), they are going to have to move beyond austerity-only and instead move on to more growth-promoting measures.   

Dupont-Aignan, I guess. I haven't studied him much, but he seems like the most Libertarian-type candidate.

Sarko fan no. 1 ;)

Vote Mélenchon in the first round, then switch to Hollande.

Sarko.

Not sure which of these joke candidates will get my joke vote.

If you want to push the joke to its logical conclusions, you should go for Cheminade. ;D

Marine. If I we're French, I'll vote for her and her dad everytime they run.

Is there any candidate that is anti-EU, but not a fascist?

first round: Joly
second: Hollande

Poutou

If we have a tie for second place, i'll find an online random name generator thing.

Some of the commies might be.

Mélenchon, I suppose. I'd rather not vote for the EU candidate.

Dupont-Aignan is the closest pick, as Mélenchon is less anti-EU than him, in fact (and contrary to what many people think).

Atlas is as leftist as ever, eh ? ;D

Well, as Boutin isn't here anymore, as Morin (oh, I hate him, but, well... he is close to my views) isn't here either, then Sarkozy has, of course, my vote.

Well yeah Dupont-Aignan is who I went for here, though admittedly, I didnt know what his EU postion was when I voted.
As for commies I was thinking of some of the trot/other non important commies more than Mélenchon when I said that, though I have no idea on their EU views either.

A Hollande / Mélenchon runoff would be an awesome thing to see IRL. :D

At this point, I'm probably going to vote for Mélenchon as a half-joke, half-serious vote in the first round and, at the rate things are going with dumb and dumber, probably 'be creative' with the ballots in the runoff.

The 'half-serious' part of the vote being a sincere tribute to Georges Marchais?

I don't understand all this love for Georges Marchais. Sure, he was a pretty good speaker and a mostly honest person, but he was also a stubborn party hack who maintained an outdated party line despite its becoming sillier and sillier every day, a quite petty politician in his relationships with other parties (yes, Mitterrand screwed him, but Marchais would have done the same had he been more clever) and whose attitude has harmed the left plenty of times.

Compare with a man like Berlinguer, who was charismatic but also intelligent, had a forceful, original, principled but not dogmatic vision of communism, a project for the future and had distanced from the soviet failure even before it had been exposed as such. It explains why the PCF became such a joke and why the PCI remained so powerful (until, of course, it committed hara-kiri).

The answer is simple: everyone loves a clown.

LOL, they're almost tied now.

I'd very reluctantly vote for Sarkozy but fortunately I am not confronted with that choice!

Same here, basically.

Probably Eva Jo-ke-ly in the 1st round and Hollande in the 2nd round.

No love for Cheminade ? :(

France is a country which really lacks good political alternatives.

I guess protest vote for Dupont-Aignan in the first round. In the 2nd round I'm not really sure. Both candidates seem intent on destroying the French economy.

This is supposed to be new? All candidates in runoffs since 1974 have been intent on destroying the economy.

Nope, never said that. The French elections that I've followed have certainly all had that characteristic.

Hollande. But Melenchon could be an option for the 1st round, too.

LOL, Dupont-Aignant is the most overrepresented (relatively speaking).

And still no love for Cheminade. :P

ftr, the poll on my blog (58 votes) is more balanced: Sarko and Hollande tied at 24%, Melenchon 17%, Bayrou 15.5%, Marion 10%, Joly 5.2%, Arthaud 3.5%. No love for either NDA, Cheminade or Poutou :(

Yeah, I already noticed that the readers of your blog tend to be more right-wing than the forum.

Bump, with 5 days left.

Anyone support Bayrou?

You might precede that with "why would"

Moderate heroes ?

He turned himself into a French Evan Bayh.

I did just cause I didn't like anyone and he seemed rather bland and thus the least likely to screw up the country as bad as the others might. I was wondering if anyone supported him actually based on his policy.

Bayrou has no policy per se. Besides "everybody else sucks, but I'm really cool because i'm a real centrist"

And something like 13% of voters support that (according to polling)?

surprised to see Beet for Melenchon.

My man Sarkozy.

had a dream last night.  in which I were Melenchon and upset Sarkozy for second place, and gave a victory speech.  I was only able to talk in English but nobody seemed to mind.  I spoke about how were were going to need a mass social movement to defeat Hollande in the runoff, and that social movement would have to continue through after we won in order to resist the IMF, EU, etc.

If Mélenchon made his victory speech in English, his voters would probably accuse him of capitulating against the globalized Anglo-Saxon financial oligarchy. :P

But fun dream anyways.

This closes at midnight (forum time) btw and i'll open a second round poll (of the forum's top two) when I wake up tomorrow.

Melenchon <3

Even if Hollande wins, it'll be a vast improvement though.

Still no love for Cheminade. :P

Well, anyways, these are good results. Probably better than RL ones. ;)

François Hollande a gangé le premier tour de l'Atlas.