Marine Le Pen's FN will be hurt by "lesser evil" voting

Tactical voting could see Socialists vote for Sarkozy's Republicans

For us Americans it's the norm.

And it's really the norm for the French, too, with their two round system, but the Socialists have been taking the decision out of voters hands by withdrawing from the second round where they ran behind both the FN and the establishment right, Sarkozy's LR, in the first, urging their own voters to vote for the LR candidate so as to defeat the FN.

Sarko has refused to cooperate by withdrawing LR candidates from the second round in regions where they ran behind both the FN and the Socialists, and has angered even some of his own party by seeming to shrug, and saying "It is not immoral to vote for the FN."

The Socialists have been hysterical about the FN, as they have been in the past.

Marine is responding with the anger one would expect from the victim of a fierce campaign of slander and vilification.

She is the Trump of France, though she is a political pro and a good deal smarter, more savvy, and less clownish than The Donald and they don't agree in everything.

The FN is expected to do well in Marion Marechal-Le Pen's region.

But they are no longer expected to achieve the big advance that was talked of right after the first round.

Some stories even say the FN might lose ground, in net.