France elections: Macron-Le Pen through to run-off, projections say

slick said:

Obviously you didn't understand the post!

{All he he needs to win is advice from Hillary and Kerry on winning elections}
Get it Hillary & Kerry are many things but winning isn't something on their resume's

Trump endorsement of Le Pen was subtle but an endorsement none the less. No lies on my part! .

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Republicans are good at getting elected...but real lousy at governing.

NIMBY said:

You make a key point. She isn't going away if she loses THIS time. She will gain valuable exposure for the next race and be able to capitalize on any terrorist acts ~

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Most of the populists have faced repeat defeat - Wilders, Farage etc and Jean Marie le Pen before his daughter took over. These groups like "strong men" type leaders where the cult of personality is important. Less extreme parties tend to cull election losers so there is less chance to build momentum in the long term for the main parties.

Moot said:

Republicans are good at getting elected...but real lousy at governing.

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You voted for Mrs. Clinton & for every one of Trump's 100 days in office you have been trashing his efforts
yet regardless of left wing pundits offering how horrendous Trump's start has been a WP/ABC poll suggests:

While just 4 percent of Trump's supporters say they would back someone else if there was a redo
of the election, fully 15 percent of Clinton supporters say they would ditch her. Trump leads in a
re-do of the 2016 election 43 percent to 40 percent after losing the popular vote 46-44.
And were the 2016 election held again today, it shows Trump would avenge his popular-vote loss.

Moot said:

Republicans are good at getting elected...but real lousy at governing.

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You voted for Mrs. Clinton & for every one of Trump's 100 days in office you have been trashing his efforts
yet regardless of left wing pundits offering how horrendous Trump's start has been a WP/ABC poll suggests:

While just 4 percent of Trump's supporters say they would back someone else if there was a redo
of the election, fully 15 percent of Clinton supporters say they would ditch her. Trump leads in a
re-do of the 2016 election 43 percent to 40 percent after losing the popular vote 46-44.
And were the 2016 election held again today, it shows Trump would avenge his popular-vote loss.

slick said:

You voted for Mrs. Clinton & for every one of Trump's 100 days in office you have been trashing his efforts
yet regardless of left wing pundits offering how horrendous Trump's start has been a WP/ABC poll suggests:

While just 4 percent of Trump's supporters say they would back someone else if there was a redo
of the election, fully 15 percent of Clinton supporters say they would ditch her. Trump leads in a
re-do of the 2016 election 43 percent to 40 percent after losing the popular vote 46-44.
And were the 2016 election held again today, it shows Trump would avenge his popular-vote loss.

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That has nothing to do with what I said.

NIMBY said:

For these special elections, the Top two 'general election' jungle primary, GA-6 on 4/18 and runoff on 6/20, is completely different from the top two 'party election' jungle primary, SC-5 on 5/2 with party primary runoffs if necessary on 5/16 and general election on 6/20.

Both techniques guarantee lower voter turnout, their goal. Fifty different sets of rules for the same federal official that affects the other 49 states makes s mockery of the 10th amendment .

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" Article I, Section 4
1: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators."

and because of
Article I, Section 2:
2: No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Jon Ossoff is able to run for office to represent a district in which he doesn't live.

So much of the 10th Amendment has been usurped, don't blame it for something on which it had no bearing.

ISIS is going to take full advantage now - if they can't be bothered to use this golden opportunity to rock the French vote towards LePen, then they might as well pack it in. France is upto its eyeballs in Muslims - there's no better hunting ground for waging terror attacks to influence an important election, to cause maximum political fallout.

NIMBY said:

For these special elections, the Top two 'general election' jungle primary, GA-6 on 4/18 and runoff on 6/20, is completely different from the top two 'party election' jungle primary, SC-5 on 5/2 with party primary runoffs if necessary on 5/16 and general election on 6/20.

Both techniques guarantee lower voter turnout, their goal. Fifty different sets of rules for the same federal official that affects the other 49 states makes s mockery of the 10th amendment .

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I'm still trying to figure out why Georgia was singled out by the federal judge. Probably because the lawsuit was brought against Georgia and not South Carolina which means South Carolina can still utilize the three week period. The constitution left how election occur and when up to the states, although it did specify when the electoral votes were to be cast and counted.

Representatives in the House of Representatives are suppose to represent the people of their district in the state they reside. Not the nation as a whole, but the people of their district. Today, most representatives don't represent the people of their district at all, they represent their political party.

PeteEU said:

Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million votes.

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She would do well running for mayor of New York of Los Angeles... everywhere else? Eh.

Also, according to the most recent ABC/WaPo poll, if everyone who voted in November were asked to vote again it would end up that Trump would now win the popular vote as well.

:roll: I highly doubt it...

https://www.debatepolitics.com/gene...-approval-first-quarter-lowest-14-points.html

Macron winning is a foregone conclusion.