France 2012: Official Results Thread

[batmacumba]

If it wasn't for a one electoral region there, in the South-East, the Sarkozy majority parts could form a contiguous area.

You can bet the northwestern half voted for him (while the southeastern one would've gone heavily for Hollande). So, just look as if It was two, and you'll get your contiguity.

[batmacumba]

Nice photo album from Le Monde

(look at that guy close to Hollande on some pics on stage, someone wanna create a new political crisis in Belgium?)



Home pages of websites:



Let's have dignity, let's be patriot, let's be French.

I love you.

There's never been so much craziness about 'patriotism' in France...

And well, Sarkozy's classical 'emotionalism'...





You don't need translation I think.



always works...

Too bad they don't pass the whole sequence when La Vie en Rose is played on stage after the 1st Hollande speech in Tulle. Was lovely. You can also see the hills of Tulle in the background at one point and he made his speech on the Place de la Cathédrale (I rarely went to Tulle, I was more a Briviste , the 'bad rightist bourgeois of Corrèze', while Tulle are the 'cool leftist guys of Corrèze', but I've been quite impressed by this cathedral when I was a kid), ah well whatever, good night France...

Loved the 3rd pic. I thought He would just pick up the guitar and rock people out.
The Belgian PM, on the other hand, should be impeached for outrageous bad taste.

[batmacumba]

While everybody wastes time with boring French abroad results, here's a very important map: Jospin 1995 vs Hollande 2012



What did I say? Le Havre-Meaux-St. Etienne-Perpignan. That's the new axis.

Massif gains.

[batmacumba]

Pretty remarkable given how important the Catholic/Anti-Clerical divide was a primary electoral cleavage, isn't it?

Yep. Now the left should advocate returning to medieval borders. Also, the PS could rename themselves Partiac Socialistac. OK, I know this was a bad joke.

[batmacumba]

Yet the massif phenomenon is something, isn't It?

[batmacumba]

While everybody wastes time with boring French abroad results, ...

Quite true
Still, there are 2 results that have come as a shock for me: Holande has won Japan and, what is more, the UK !!!

And Sarkozy strong again in Brazil is still a mystery for me.

Don't ask me. But I would relate with our media.

[batmacumba]

I believe the anti christ will be a socialist, so for him to control europe, he will need socialist governments in place. I believe that we are seeing bible prophecy fulfilled. These people don't want balanced budgets, they don't want austerity, and many don't want to work, they want a nanny government to take care of them, and this is why the anti christ will be so well received. I can see his campaign slogan now, TRUST ME, I WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU, it will require a little mark though, in your hand or forehead. I believe he will confiscate the wealth of the developed countries, and the wealth left behind by raptured saints. THis will cause commerce to prosper, as the Bible says. Just imagine the stimulus effect this would have. I believe we might already know this man, although I don't have a clue who he is.

... Are you kidding me... i was going to report this, as it is extremely offensive to me as a Socialist/Social democrat but i've decided to let it be as the rediculousness of your comments will cause most of us to just laugh or shake our heads. I am hoping that this was intended to be ironic or sarcastic, but yikes.
... didn't we have an anti-christ already? Oh ya wasn't he a Nazi... an extreme right-wing facist capitalist?
If you can't have an adult conversation without bursting into Falwell then please go, i'm sure their is a religious zealot message board somewhere (do ppl still say message board? lol)

You clearly don't know King.

One doesn't need to know him to see the post's wit. The three last sentences should make anyone understand...