A good 40% of the voters in one of the world's suavest and best educated electorates seem bent on casting their ballots this weekend for a rum assortment of communists (adherents of Leon Trotsky to the fore), xenophobes and potty populists, all vying for France's grandest job. Of the 16 candidates, only one frankly espouses a mix of social and economic liberalism: he should get about 3% of the vote.
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