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Does anyone (in addition to lacordaire) know any actual French people (including women) over the age of 65 who they could ask about this?
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 02:43:42 AM EST
The ones I know vote for Royal...

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
by Melanchthon on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 09:07:42 AM EST
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I can think of two, rural, Catholic, culturally conservative women over 65. Whom I wouldn't question on their voting intentions (the secrecy of the ballot tends to be more of a fetish with the older folks - these women were alive when women got the vote in France, 1944...), but I'm pretty sure one will vote Sarkozy and the other Royal because of ingrained family and local left/right traditions. Yet, no doubt, each would say Royal was wrong to stay unmarried to Hollande.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 03:47:27 PM EST
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I didn't really mean to ask them how they were planning to vote, I was thinking more along the lines of, "Why do you think people in your age group seem to prefer Sarkozy so much more than younger people?"
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 04:18:26 PM EST
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