[QUOTE=thisispain;37587223]et voila, sarkozy[/QUOTE]
Chirac actually.
Sarkozy came in 2007 after Chirac and only stayed for one term (Chirac stacked up 3 in total, 2 of which consecutively).
Sarkozy actually tried the same thing as Chirac in this year's elections, by pushing the media (especially TF1 whose CEO is a direct friend of Sarkozy) to emphasis on the lack of security and the increasing number of immigrants in France, which would get the national front and ump voted for second ballot then the ump would win thanks to general fear of the national front again. The issue is, Sarkozy had pretty much gunned down the reputation of his party at that point and socialists had no major problem winning.
And back in 2007 when Sarkozy was elected he got very close from losing against a socialist as well, but back then the socialist party ruined their own candidate's reputation and chances at winning because they felt like she would be a terrible president (which in a way is true because she was kinda dumb and extremely entitled).
[editline]8th September 2012[/editline]
Man I love talking about politics
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;37587205]This whole thing reminds me a lot of the French elections of 2002.
What you have to know is that in France there are two ballots, and during the first one there are often around 6 different candidates. On the second ballot, there are only 2, if no candidate could get an absolute majority.
This being said, on 2002, the two candidates who got into second ballot were part of the National Front (which is pretty much like republicans, except they like accusing Arabic immigrants of causing every problem in the world rather than homosexuals) and the UMP (which is a right wing party, I guess between democrat and republican, probably towards democrat).
People were so piss-scared that the national front guy would get elected (he was genuinely batshit insane and now his daughter has replaced him) that they massively elected for the other guy, giving him a whopping 70% of votes on second ballot.
Kinda reminds me of the current situation in the US. [b]Romney is such a disconnected-from-reality extreme lunatic that pretty much everyone with a bit of sense is going to make sure Obama gets elected.[/b][/QUOTE]
You give the American people too much credit. This is coming from an American.
I live about 20 minutes away from Charlotte.
Post-DNC feelings for me personally are the same as they were when I first learned it was coming here; this is not a real city and they couldn't have picked a worse place to host the DNC. Obama probably would have gotten an even bigger bump if they had hosted it at an important place where people actually live.
But in Charlotte, there's like three blocks that [I]looks[/I] like a city when you see pictures of it, but you know how you can go to a real city like New York and take a 360 panorama and the skyline is throughout the whole picture? Well in charlotte you'd be limited to one 90 degree shot to capture the city skyline. We recently built a light-rail system so that we could have some semblance of public transportation; it only goes 9 miles. Duke energy and the BoA headquarters is pretty much all that's here, it's a ridiculous place to hold a national convention.
That being said, regardless of your ideology, you gotta admit, the DNC is still generating more discussion than the RNC. Crazy old Clint's empty chair was the only interesting thing going on at the RNC, but the great speeches from the DNC will probably stay in the news for at least a week or so. Bill Clinton ripped shit up.
[QUOTE=Fahrenheit;37587305]You give the American people too much credit. This is coming from an American.[/QUOTE]
Well Obama already got elected once and I feel like McCain was a more threatening candidate to Obama than Romney. Sure he majorly got discredited by Palin but Romney is discrediting himself, plus all of the republican idiots who said very dumb shit through his campaign.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
