More on France.
Like all countries, France has a racist xenophobic fascist theocratic seedy underbelly. With our two party system, we can usually ignore ours, until it starts blowing up buildings full of people. These people are never really given an opportunity to have their numbers quantified by their revealed preference - their secret ballot - at least at the national level.
France, with its many many party system, regularly gets to be shocked and horrified that 15% of their voters would vote for Le Pen and his party, but also can take comfort in the fact that is, after all, only 15%.
However, now that Le Pen will go up against Chirac with only two names on the ballot, France will discover how many of their people are willing to put their version of David Duke in office. Although it is hard to imagine that he would win, what will getting 35-40% of the vote mean for France?
Here at home, in a two man race between Al Gore and David Duke...what percentage of the vote would Duke get?
