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...support. Behind him, Communist Candidate Georges Marchais, 60, is fighting to improve on the 20.55% his party obtained in 1978. On the right, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, 48, leader of the Neo-Gaullists, has made surprising advances among conservatives and suddenly emerged as a still unlikely, but just possible, second-round challenger to Giscard...
...political erosion is apparent in the opinion polls. Five months ago, Giscard was expected to take 35% of the vote in the first round and 59% in the second-round runoff between the two top vote getters. Now four polls give him only 27% to 28% in the first round. For the decisive second round, two polls showed Mitterrand winning with 51% and 54%. Another saw Giscard gaining a sum victory, while a fourth predicted a dead heat. Giscard appeared to acknowledge that his campaign was in trouble by calling his top strategists to the Elysée Palace...
...vote in a runoff against Mitterrand, a significant improvement over the paper-thin 50.8% majority with which he was elected in 1974. But the latest surveys show Giscard winning only around 30% in the first round, scheduled for April 26, and 50% to 52% in a second-round runoff against Mitterrand, his most likely final opponent...
...preliminary to the title fight Bobby Simms, Hagler's half-brother, remained undefeated with a second-round knockout over Baltimore's Bill Harrington...
...Crimson had already destroyed the New Hampshire squad, 6-1, earlier this season and, looking ahead to the second-round game, was not prepared for a powerful Wildcat attack...