Marine Le Pen Takes “Huge Lead” In French Presidential Election Poll Just Days After Being Written Off

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The pollsters have done it again. Just four days after the Independent reported that pollsters said Marine Le Pen has “next to no chance” of winning the French presidency…
Pollsters say Marine Le Pen has next to no chance of winning the French presidency — The Independent (@Independent) November 16, 2016

… today we learned that contrary to previous polls, the leader of National Front leader Marine – the person whose surge in the past few years has been most equated to the French populist revolt that has taken place in the UK and US – has taken a commanding lead in the latest French presidential election poll.
As the Independent writes in “Marine Le Pen takes huge lead over nearest rival in new French presidential election poll“, according to the latest, Nov. 20, Ipsos poll, Le Pen had 29% of the vote when pitted against Nicolas Sarkozy, who was eight points behind, and held a 15-point lead over the Parti de Gauche’s Jean-Luc Mlenchon in the poll released by Ipsos, which analysed five scenarios with different frontrunners.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 20, 2016.