The Devil and the Deep Blue...

At 5:00 a.m., EDT, Friday morning April 20, the two front-runners each have 27% of the votes. Marine Le Pen has 17%. Hollande is projected to win on May 6 with 55%. At least that is what the left-wing Libération says, based on a TNS Sofres poll published Friday.

There are some very stubborn and/or suspicious people out there who are going to stay home on Sunday and deprive Marine of a better score. These are people who are apathetic, who feel she isn't Catholic enough, or pugnacious enough, who preferred her father, who have a grudge of some sort, etc… I can only urge them (as if they're listening to me!) to get out and vote for her. She probably will not make it to the second round anyway, so I cannot understand why there is such a reluctance to cast a vote for something better, even if it isn't exactly what one would like. Is Hollande better? Would five more years of Sarkozy be better? Do I want to sit here for five more years and write about Socialists, Communists, Europeists, gang-rapes, subway murders, car burnings, neglected churches and monuments, and violent schools? Give me a break...