{"id":27478,"date":"2017-05-07T13:02:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T20:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27478"},"modified":"2017-05-07T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T20:02:35","slug":"french-smarter-than-americans-or-brits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/07\/french-smarter-than-americans-or-brits\/","title":{"rendered":"French Smarter than Americans or Brits"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m very pleased to report that unlike the voters in the US, who allowed a Russian plant to infest our White House, and unlike voters in the UK, who fell for Russian propaganda on Brexit and put the extreme right wing or their Conservative Party in charge, French voter showed authentic intelligence by rejecting their Nazi version of Trump and Theresa May, Marine Le Pen, and electing Emmanuel Macron by a wide margin.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union, early projections showed.<\/p>\n

The centrist’s emphatic victory, which also smashed the dominance of France\u2019s mainstream parties, will bring huge relief to European allies who had feared another populist upheaval to follow Britain’s vote to quit the EU and Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president.<\/p>\n

Five projections, issued within minutes of polling stations closing at 8 p.m. (2 p.m. ET), showed Macron beating Le Pen by around 65 percent to 35<\/strong> – a gap wider than the 20 or so percentage points that pre-election surveys had pointed to… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Kudos to French voters.  Thank you for reminding us how to…<\/font><\/p>\n

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I’m very pleased to report that unlike the voters in the US, who allowed a Russian plant to infest our White House, and unlike voters in the UK, who fell for Russian propaganda on Brexit and put the extreme right wing or their Conservative Party in charge, French voter showed authentic intelligence by rejecting their […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}