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"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Sarko vs. Sego: The French head to the polls today (SARKO WINS!)
By 5 pm French time, the turn out was 75%.
The French Election blog will be posting poll results later today, so if you’re interested in seeing the results of this election, keep checking back there. Pajamas Media is also following this election closely and will have updates. I’ll post updates as well once I find some links to update with.
More: Memeorandum has more stories and links to bloggers discussing this election.
Update I: The AP is reporting that Sarko has won the election by a vote of 53% to 47% (hat tip: ST reader Lorica). French Election 2007 has many more updates.
Bloomberg is reporting voter turnout was around 85%. Wow.
Update II: In Sarko’s victory speech, he told America that we can count on France as a friend. Heh. More, via CNN (emphasis added):
U.S. President George W. Bush called Sarkozy to congratulate him on his victory, a White House spokesman said in a written statement.
[...]
Prior to the election results being made public, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said a Sarkozy victory would be favorable to the United States.
“Clearly, his views are more in line with ours,” Lugar told CNN’s “Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer.”
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., concurred: “I do. I do,” he told CNN. “I mean, it would be nice to have someone who is head of France who doesn’t almost have a knee-jerk reaction against the United States.
LOL! Now if Schumer’s own party would stop having knee-jerk reactions to the US … 
Also, here are tons more links on Sarko’s win via Memeorandum.
Update III: ¡No Pasarán! has links here and here to anarchists showing their, ahem, displeasure at the results of the election. (Hat tip: Instapundit)
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Breitbart is reporting a Sarkozy victory, with 53% vs. 47%. Now I am not as enlightened as your average liberal, but it seems to me there is a new conservative mandate in France right now. I have to wonder how Nancy or Hillary or Harry are going to spin this as a “victory” for the whole world.
– Lorica
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Ohhhh and thank you people of France for this.
– Lorica
Great news!
Now I can go back to mixing my primo margaritas with Grand Marnier!
So the French are now officially more pro-US than the Democrats….now there’s a paradigm shifting without using the clutch.
But I won’t count on a stream of reports from the MSM about a “mandate” for Sarkozy. In their distorted view of the world, only leftists get mandates.
In any case, congratulations to President-elect Sarkozy and to the French people.
OMG!!! Check out this headline on the Drudge Report:
And I for one would appreciate a new era of frendship with our oldest Ally. – Lorica
Could it be that possibly even the French are getting tired of liberal/socialist BS? Maybe the riots, high unemployment, poor economy, and non-assimilated Islamists are finally getting on their nerves enough that they are ready for a change.
But, and there’s always a but, I expect what he will be able to accomplish will be limited, as the French socialists in government he’ll have to deal with probably make our Democrat moonbats look absolutely Reaganesque by comparison, and will fight him tooth and nail over every single issue.
Things are about to get VERY interesting in the French gov’t
Thisis interesting:
Soooo, appears that the left is the same everywhere eh?
Yes they will S.T. Very interesting to say the least. I wish him well.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall for that first strategy meeting.
I doubt that he’ll get the allied assist from the governing bodies, though I hope he can. The time to circle the wagons is sooooooooo long overdue.
It is amazing that they had 85% turnout though, that’s impressive. And here we thought the French were an ennui addled, apathetic lot.
So did the American friendly candidate win?
I’m kinda confused here. Thought I saw something else on the news and I’ve worked the whole week-end.
Will someone please enlighten me.
P.S. I’m really not usually this lame.
Yes D’s Mom, the pro-American Conservative won the election!!! When GW called to congratulate him, he told our President that he could expect France to be with him. YaY!!!!! – Lorica
This comment from Newt is from his letter regarding the Sarkozy win for moving forward, as opposed to being a progressive trying it’s damnedest to get y’all killed.