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The upcoming presidential elections in France only get the slightest of peripheral attention in the American press, even though the climate of political change in France is white-hot. Though I've loosely followed British national politics for a number of years, I have to admit to only having a jot more information about French politics than, say, the Stanley Cup playoffs (which is to say, not much). I know a little about the two major candidates and the race issue, which has galvanized French voters, and that's that.
So I was very glad this morning to read this first-hand analysis of the elections at 3Quarks Daily which looks at the sudden emergence of a center-right candidate who has sucked away support from both the far-right LePen faction and from the Socialists and their popular candidate, Segolene Royal. Another 3Quarks post also pointed me to yesterday's NYT Sunday Magazine piece about the driving issues behind French politics.
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