Another expert says she incarnates a new Left that doesn't want to believe experts, a bit naive, a bit like Rocard, and when she says that she doesn't have an answer to everything she hits home with the average French person.

One said she is basically managing her popularity.

The Royal as president / Strauss-Kahn as competent prime minister option seems increasingly likely (and has been commented upon favorably in the business press, I think even in the FT)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes