probably kind of tasteless to ask in a thread that should be dedicated to the battle...but....
Hashemite, how did Verdun vote in the 2007 presidential election?
I would guess they were strongly in favor of Sarkozy.
Verdun is a major city and quite working-class, but generally right-leaning city, but not crazily right-wing (though its "suburbia" is). Sarkozy got 57.2%, which I believe is quite good for a right-wing candidate in Verdun. Le Pen did well there, but less so than in other parts of the Meuse.
But then, Verdun's constituency elects a well-implanted Socialist deputy. Though part of that is due to the local right's division between the remnants of Pasqua's RPF (notably, the mayor of Verdun) and the official UMP.
Historically a very Catholic area, of course (thus the right-leaning thing). Both Meuse seats were Socialist in 2002 because of personal votes; hilarious in retrospect (and presumably at the time).
