re: #82 Killgore Trout

Uh oh
Rightist Marine Le Pen now tops French opinion poll

The article there is worded in a somewhat misleading fashion. It says she’d win 23 percent of the vote in the first round of voting, which would be enough to move her to the next round, but would be far short of the majority she would need to actually win outright.

If that were happen I’d think (Or, at least, hope) that the result would be similar to what occurred when her father shockingly advanced to the second round against Chirac in 2002. Basically, the entire French political establishment (outside the National Front, of course), as well as much of the French population, united around Chirac against Le Pen and, in the end, Chirac won in an absolute landslide, with over 80% of the vote.

That said, it is certainly concerning to see her polling that high.