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...Hoping to marginalize Tiberi, the Gaullists gave their official nod to Séguin. A formidable orator and political heavyweight, he had high popularity ratings and experience as a former minister and mayor of the eastern city of Epinal. "Séguin seemed like a sure thing," sighs a rpr official. "But his candidacy never caught fire...
...different as Laurel and Hardy. Conservative Philippe Séguin, 57, is corpulent and earthy, with a resonant bass voice and an addiction to unfiltered Gitanes. Socialist Bertrand Delanoë, 50, an avowed homosexual, is soft-spoken and ascetic-looking with a gift for irony and a penchant for slim cigarillos. Séguin, a former Minister of Labor and ex-president of the National Assembly, is a man of national ambitions who dreams of occupying the Elysée Palace. Delanoë, apart from one term in Parliament, has spent his entire political career as a party activist...
...guin faced multiple problems: Tiberi's "dissident" candidacy, public lassitude after nearly a quarter-century of Gaullist rule, voter disgust over allegations of corruption going back to Chirac's days as mayor and, not least, the charge that Séguin was a parachuté-a carpetbagger brought in from the outside. To make matters worse, he has run a lackluster race marked by baffling tactical shifts. By contrast, Delanoë's low-key campaign, boosted by the national popularity of the Socialist-led government, has the wind at its back...
...more confident," O'Guin says, "you ask more questions. Terry [a bartender] over there talked to one guy for 5 minutes. There was this one girl last week, she looked exactly like the person in the picture. It must have been her older sister--she knew all the information. We just said, 'Thanks, no way you're 21,' and she walked away...
...have fought us we would have given her her ID back," O'Guin says...