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...second-round duel with Chirac got under way, Mitterrand's task was still daunting. He had to push Chirac as far toward Le Pen as possible in the hope that many of Barre's 5 million center-right supporters would turn to the Socialist but moderate-sounding President. The pollsters carefully spelled out the arithmetic of Mitterrand's task. From the environmentalist, Communist and fringe Marxist parties, they calculated, Mitterrand could expect to add 13.5 percentage points to his first-round score. Total...
...professionals estimated that the President could also count on 3 percentage points from Le Pen's first-round total. That support, they thought, would come mainly from disenchanted Communists in working-class districts, where Le Pen sentiment was often strongest. Such voters had cast anti- immigrant protest ballots in the first round, but were expected to return to the leftist fold in the runoff. An additional 2 points of support was expected from Barre voters. All that would push Mitterrand over the top with nearly...
...Chirac, the arithmetic was more problematical. In addition to his 19.9%, the experts reckoned he could count on 11.5 percentage points from Le Pen's voters and 15 from the Barre camp. That would still leave him short...
...barnstorming dash, Chirac will seek to appeal to both the center- right and Le Pen voters. The Premier flatly ruled out any deals with the National Front, but he said he would address "the worries" of extreme-right voters. Chirac mentioned "all those who want security and to be assured that delinquency, criminality and terrorism will be fought with the necessary firmness; that our national identity will be preserved; that clandestine immigration will be fought...
Outside is one of the post's main tourist attractions: Clay Henry, a beer- drinking goat whose pen abuts the shaded porch. A boozer of 14 years' standing, Clay Henry picks up an opened can or bottle in his mouth and downs the contents in seconds. "He has drunk as much as 24 cans in a single day," says Linda Garcia, a clerk at the post. CLAY HENRY FOR MAYOR, reads a sign on the fridge that holds the beer...