| Put it on the house? | | By Jocelyn Evans, Gilles Ivaldi | | 20 January 2012 | Polls & Forecasts | | | One of France's leading polling institutes last night presented its latest findings on vote intentions for the Presidential race, and strikingly placed Marine Le Pen a mere two percentage points behind Nicolas Sarkozy. In New Year polls, the principal dynamic has been one of resserrement - the tightening ... Read More... |
| ‘Banal’ can be a dirty word | | By Jocelyn Evans | | 15 January 2012 | Candidates | | Over the next four months, the word banalisation is going to feature heavily in the French press coverage of Marine Le Pen and the Front National’s respective election campaigns.
Even though the word does not exist in English, it ostensibly has an easily intuited meaning – the ...Read More... |
| The 2012 French Presidential election: the slow bicycle race | | By Jocelyn Evans, Gilles Ivaldi | | 11 January 2012 | Candidates | | “The sprint is the most subtle form of track competition […] Sprinters will bring their bikes to a complete standstill in an attempt to force the other man to lead […]”
Roderick Watson & Martin Gray, The Penguin Book of the Bicycle. (1978: 238)
For the main rivals in ...Read More... |
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