All eyes are on the French Presidential Election (Round #1) being held today.  There are multiple candidates but only the top two go to round #2.  Most predictions have Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron as the top two candidates.

UPDATE: 5:30pm EDT  Surprising most of the liberal punditry, and contradicting most of the earlier exit polls, Marine Le Pen has won the first round over her closest rival Emmanuel Macron (link):

Francios Fillon conceded and endorsed the political establishment favorite Macron.  Melenchon has refused to endorse anyone.  As expected the national runoff will be:

Marine Le Pen -vs- Emmanuel Macron

Similar to Hillary Clinton, Macron will carry the endorsement of the professional political class and all of the left-wing French media.  Similar to Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen will be running as an outsider against the entire political apparatus and the media machine.

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Typical perpetually aggrieved leftist response when they don’t get their way…. riot, complain, shut sh*t down etc. 

(Via Daily Mail) The mob chanted ‘get the Tories out’ as large sections of the city were shut down as a result of the demonstration.

Some of the protesters brandished highly offensive home-made banners proclaiming F*** The Cuts’, while others described the Conservative Party as Tory Scum.
Protesters threw bottles, cans and smoke bombs at the police. Scuffles broke out when the demonstrators, blaring hooters, banging pots and chanting obscenities, confronted lines of police outside the gate protecting the Prime Minister’s official residence.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery – Winston Churchill
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money. – Margaret Thatcher

Excerpts of Analysis from the U.K. Election:  Liberalism Self-Destructs !

♦  Polling in the weeks before the election had Conservative and Labour parties neck-and-neck in the days and week’s leading up to the May 7 election. The polling included Nate Silver’s – and it was completely wrong.
♦ Labour ended up with a heavy trouncing, down 24 seats when Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com had them gaining 11, while it predicted the Conservatives would lose 24. In fact the winners, Conservatives, gained 25 seats and achieved an overall majority.

♦ President Obama’s campaign mastermind suffered a humiliating end to his political career today as the British Labour party he was paid almost $500,000 to help to victory plunged to a catastrophic defeat. (more…)

David Cameron’s conservatives (Tories) won even more seats than exit polls suggested, 7am forecasts now predicting an outright majority with 329 seats (326 needed for majority).

Labour (Liberals) lost approximately 24 MP seats, and Liberal Democrats were the BIGGEST LOSERS overall seeing 49 seats lost to SNP and Conservatives.
Scotland’s SNP (Scottish Nationalist Party) destroyed the Liberal Democrats winning all by one seat in Parliament, and virtually guaranteeing another referendum for independence.
The UKIP party placed third in overall aggregate votes, but was only able to win one seat outright, and a second possible. (more…)

Results are beginning to come in from the U.K. election and Liberals throughout Great Britain are aghast at the early indications.

All polling -SHARED BY MEDIA- prior to election day today showed a virtual dead heat between the conservatives (David Cameron) and liberals (Ed Miliband).  However, the exit polling is not even close – But Remember These Are Exit Polls, Not Official Results.
(Via Daily Mail) [At 11:00pm UK] David Cameron’s hopes of remaining in Downing Street received a huge boost tonight as a shock exit poll showed the Conservatives are on course to make gains in the general election.
The poll predicts that not only will the Tories be the biggest party but they will make gains on their 2010 tally of MPs, winning 14 seats to reach a total of 316. In a devastating blow for Ed Miliband, Labour faces being left with 17 fewer seats than Gordon Brown, slumping to 239 and raising doubts about his troubled leadership. (more…)

(Reuters) – British voters get to decide on Thursday who they want to rule the world’s fifth-largest economy in a tight election that could yield weak government, propel the United Kingdom towards a vote on EU membership and stoke Scottish desire for secession.
Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives and Ed Miliband’s opposition Labour Party have been neck and neck in opinion polls for months, indicating neither will win enough seats for an outright majority in the 650-seat parliament.
“This race is going to be the closest we have ever seen,” Miliband told supporters in Pendle, in northern England, on the eve of the vote. “It is going to go down to the wire.”
Cameron said only his Conservatives could deliver strong, stable government: “All other options will end in chaos.” (more…)

Trying to have a political democratic process where a violent minority sect cannot disrupt nor manipulate a peaceful majority desire is challenging.  
EGYPT – On the same day he left to China for political and economic talks, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ratified an anticipated electoral constituencies law, the final prerequisite for holding parliamentary elections, which would conclude the country’s transitional roadmap.
The law drafted by Egypt’s government last week will divide the country into 237 constituencies for individual candidacy seats and another four for party list seats.
The parliament will be comprised of a total of 567 seats, 120 for party-based ‎candidates, 420 for independents and 27 for presidential ‎appointees, as stipulated by an elections law issued by former interim president Adly Mansour in June, a day before El-Sisi’s inauguration as president. (more…)

(Via SCF) Seven Republican senators have now been linked to the racial attacks against conservative Chris McDaniel in Mississippi.   The financial report for Thad Cochran’s super PAC was released [last] week and contains two alarming details.

First, it shows that the following seven GOP senators gave a total of $160,000 to Thad Cochran’s super PAC:

• 1. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — $50,000 — (202) 224-2541 — Facebook — Twitter
• 2. Bob Corker (R-TN) — $30,000 — (202) 224-3344 — Facebook — Twitter
• 3. Rob Portman (R-OH) — $25,000 —  (202) 224-3353 — Facebook — Twitter
• 4. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) — $25,000 — (202) 224-5251 — Facebook — Twitter
• 5. Richard Burr (R-NC) — $20,000 — (202) 224-3154 — Facebook — Twitter
• 6. Roy Blunt (R-MO) — $5,000 — (202) 224-5721 — Facebook — Twitter
• 7. Mike Crapo (R-ID) — $5,000 — (202) 224-6142 — Facebook — Twitter

Second, it shows that the PAC then gave a similar amount to a liberal group to run racial attacks against Chris McDaniel.
These Decepticon senators fully funded ads that urged Democrats to “cross over and vote in the republican primary” and claimed that a McDaniel win would be a loss “for race relationships between blacks and whites.” (more…)

First Team McDaniel gives a presser:

This might not come as a surprise to many, heck, actually anyone who knows the depths the Republican Establishment class of professional liars;  but thanks to the continued digging and efforts of Charles C Johnson, and Team McDaniel in Mississippi, Karl Rove is exposed yet again.   LIAR !

Rove is not called a “Decepticon” for nothing:

Reconcile the above 6/20/2014 contribution of $50,000 from Karl Rove and American Crossroads with their prior statements: (more…)