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...than most Democrats in America) and the more traditional social welfare agenda of Royal. Although “Sarko” has led every poll in recent months, he has ceded four percentage points in the last week to Royal, who is ruthlessly exploiting anxiety about economic reform and Sarkozy??s personality, riding a “Tout Sauf Sarkozy?? (“Anything But Sarko”) movement that may carry...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri and Clay A. Dumas | Title: Oui Are For Sarko | 5/4/2007 | See Source »

...reversal of roles that an American would find baffling, the so-called “right-wing” Sarkozy proposes to introduce desperately needed affirmative action programs to France (hitherto unknown in this welfare state) while the “socialist” Royal vigorously opposes them. Sarkozy??s opponents claim that his platform is “brutal” and that it will rend the French social fabric. Depressingly, French youth (especially those in the banlieues who would particularly gain from his fresh approach), seem the most susceptible to these arguments and are the most...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri and Clay A. Dumas | Title: Oui Are For Sarko | 5/4/2007 | See Source »

This may seem like an unlikely proposition, but as it turns out, all four major candidates in the latest French presidential elections had SL campaign headquarters that each received thousands of visitors daily—far more than their real headquarters would ever dream of. Nicolas Sarkozy??s campaign headquarters was its own island; François Bayrou’s handed out t-shirts that read, “Sexy Centrist”; at one point, protesters staged riots outside the headquarters of far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen’s headquarters and tossed exploding pigs...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: The Politics of Second Life | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

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