by Stephen Yellin
I'm not sure if anyone here has reported on the French Presidential election results that came out earlier today, so here goes...
France had its 1st round of the Presidential election yesterday and today (they vote on 2 days and the weekend - how democratic!). The top 2 vote-getters advance to the runoff on May 6th. Pre-election polling has shown incumbent Nicholas Sarkozy (sar-KO-zy) trailing his main opponent, Socialist Party nominee Francois Hollande (holl-OND) by a large margin in that runoff.
First, however, Sarkozy and Hollande had to get past a number of opponents in this weekend's 1st round. The good, bad and ugly results are below the line.