WTF????Marine Le Pen poll rating shock for French politics

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12660329
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An opinion poll suggesting far-right leader Marine Le Pen could win the first round of next year's presidential election has caused a shock in France.

The survey for Le Parisien newspaper puts the National Front leader, who took over from her father Jean-Marie in January, ahead of all other candidates.

It gives her 23% of the vote, 2% ahead of both President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist leader Martine Aubry.

However, some analysts question the accuracy of the online poll.

Online surveys are arguably less reliable than telephone polling, and Le Parisien's poll assumes Ms Aubry will be chosen as the Socialists' candidate, while the party has yet to decide.

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1. "her trump card is a kind of woman-on-the-street ordinariness "

Sounds familiar. She's the Sarah Palin of France.

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. Immigrant bashing...

...check.
Culture-war symbolic politics, and legislation. Check
Pig-ignorant macro-economics, from a shop-keeper's world view. Check.

Are there moose in France?
Peut-elle voir la Russie de sa maison?

[Warren Stupidity]

2. It is an online poll, so it has no statistical validity.

"some analysts question the accuracy of the online poll" - as in any analyst who has a shred of integrity and was asked.

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4. That was the good news

:hi: