by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 05/09/2017 at 17:20
by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 05/09/2017 at 17:20
Tags: France
STARS: 1
After Round 2 of the presidential elections, here’s the outcome.
M Macron in orange, and the darker the shade the higher his vote. Mme Le Pen in pink, because pink for a girl.
As you go from West to East and North, Macron fades a little and Le Pen gains a little. Not as clear a division as after round 1 but still a division as Le Pen appeals to the kind of voter who’d vote Trump and who lives in the forgotten industrialised and formerly industrialised areas.
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
05/09/2017 at 17:31, STARS: 2
RIGGED.
"Noah - Now with more boost." (antriebverliebt)
05/09/2017 at 17:38, STARS: 0
Lots of pale areas and the only two pinks up north. I wonder what’s wrong up there...
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/09/2017 at 18:02, STARS: 0
25% abstention. All this makes me wonder what would have happened here if Trump had been running against anybody other than Hillary Clinton.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
05/09/2017 at 18:03, STARS: 0
One letter off from macaron. Just saying...
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
05/09/2017 at 18:06, STARS: 1
Well, Pas de Calais (one of the two pink départements) is a former mining area which sounds like the kind of place that’d go for the hard right, Aisne (the other Le Pen victory) is mainly agricultural and farming types tend to be right wing, but you could say the same of some of the Macron areas. In short, I don’t really know.
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
05/09/2017 at 18:07, STARS: 0
Interestingly, abstention seems to be higher in areas with a higher Le Pen vote.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/09/2017 at 18:08, STARS: 0
That is interesting. There is going to be some interesting post-election analysis in the coming weeks.
"fintail" (fintail)
05/09/2017 at 18:12, STARS: 0
Russia is closer to the east and north too :)
"Under_Score" (tomtheatum)
05/09/2017 at 18:39, STARS: 0
I see Calais as a pink district, and I’ve heard of Calais.
It makes a lot of sense why the natives supported Le Pen
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
05/09/2017 at 18:58, STARS: 0
Yes, that would certainly be an issue.
"Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)" (bman76-4)
05/09/2017 at 19:09, STARS: 1
"NojustNo" (front24200)
05/09/2017 at 19:46, STARS: 0
I was always worried that those polls showing Hillary had a 90% chance of winning would make lots of people overconfident and stay home. I was right. Also thanks to the disinformation campaign Hillary’s had since the 90s (and during the election) a lot of people didn’t “trust” her and voted trump or stayed home. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/25/how_russian_propaganda_used_facebook_to_spread_fake_news_during_the_election.html
"Noah - Now with more boost." (antriebverliebt)
05/09/2017 at 19:46, STARS: 0
Strange. The mining areas sound similar to USA coal towns, where Trump did really well.
"nermal" (nermal)
05/09/2017 at 19:54, STARS: 1
There were ~130 million votes in the ‘16 election. According to the internet, there are currently 321 million people in the US, and 200 million registered to vote.
Assuming you could get them geographically distributed correctly, there were enough people that couldn’t be bothered to vote that could have potentially voted a 3rd person as president.
I find that fascinating.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/09/2017 at 20:42, STARS: 0
Which is why we need to stop having elections on a Tuesday. It’s asinine. Of course, if you make elections on Saturdays, then all the poors will show up. You know, the people who have to go to work on Tuesdays.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/09/2017 at 20:42, STARS: 0
That, and the dilution of the non-Trump vote by other candidates. If we had an election run off like they do in France, there would only be two candidates.
"FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem" (fuelstratifiedinjection)
05/10/2017 at 00:59, STARS: 0
No matter who the new president is or not, France needs reformations really bad. It might hurt but protesting against every damn measure isn’t going to help.