French Fries: “Everyone Is Petrified”

Everyone is petrified. The challenge for each of the four candidates is to seek new votes without alienating their base. French voters are like fish, like eels -- very slippery. That's from Edouard Lecerf, head of the political department at polling firm Kantar Sofres, and I'm not sure it's very comforting ahead of what promises to be a truly dramatic first round of voting in France on Sunday. As one reader recently pointed out, what we're seeing in the lead up to the French vote is in many wa