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Radicals Surge in French Election

Nicolas Sarkozy

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Here's my headline from the French election results: the two anti-Euro/anti-globalization candidates of the far-left and far-right together won 31%, more than either of the two mainstream candidates, the socialist Hollande (28%) or the conservative Sarkozy (25%).

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David Frum

David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.

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