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We ll be watching with them. chris dickey, those numbers the results here, that 30 percentage point gap notwithstanding, what surprised you in the outcome of this election? i was actually surprised that the abstention level was not higher. i thought from many people i talked to that people who had voted for the former prime minister, the right wing conservative francois hollande they would not vote. melenchon who had done surprisingly well in the first round, he never told his people to vote for macron. he told them don t vote for le pen, but he left open, wide open the possibility they should abstain completely. i think there was a lot of reason to think that the turnout would be much lower than in fact it was. i think felipe who was on earlier was saying the abstention was very high. i m not sure that the numbers actually bear that out. ....

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