[CaptainCrunch]

I think she really needed to finish first in this vote to get any kind of momentum to get by Macron.

Granted I don't follow French politics that hard, but simply saying that its a blackmark that she's even in the conversation is white washing the problem there.

Clearly people are angry and sick and tired of business as usual, the reason why she's in the conversation is because the current parties have pretty much failed in terms of messaging and servicing the people.

that's why she's in the conversation, its a backlash vote. I wouldn't be surprised if Macon won because of the moderates abandoning their usual party lines to strategically vote against LePen to block her.

But there's little doubt that the formerly extreme whacko parties are moving from the shadows into the light and gaining a seat at the table.