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French far-right standard-bearer Marine Le Pen is preferred to Macron by some people you might not expect

(About that headline: all the money the Newfoundland and Labrador education system spent trying to teach me the French language sure paid off, didn’t it?)

Bloomberg reports on some polling results from France, where Marine Le Pen is shown leading Emanuel Macron in a head-to-head matchup.

Which…wasn’t that surprising, honestly. Macron was never overwhelmingly popular in politically fractured France, and was elected and then re-elected as President mainly because, well, he wasn’t Marine Le Pen.

Marine Le Pen, who leads the far-right National Rally party in France’s National Assembly, is more popular than President Emmanuel Macron, according to an Ifop poll for Paris Match published on Wednesday.

Asked which of the two personalities they prefer, 47% of those interviewed picked Le Pen, while 42% chose Macron, according to Paris Match.

The French aren’t that d…