Has anyone seen an analysis of the recent election for president of France? Apparently Chirac, the frontrunner, received less than 20 percent of the vote in a field of sixteen candidates. Le Pen, the second-placer, upset the socialist Jospin; he'll face Chirac in the runoff. I'm especially interested in knowing who the likely sincere Condorcet winner was and who would have been most likely to win an Approval election. I imagine Le Pen would never have had a chance in Approval since he polarizes the French electorate so much: his second-place showing sparked mass protests in Paris. Plurality is a great system for extremists like him, although the Communists fared very poorly.
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