People vote with their heart. in the second round, they vote with their head. french folks have millions of different political views, and that really comes across in the many candidates in the first round. the second round, they have to choose between two, and it is a begrudged vote, really. i think you have to look past the simple numbers. to give you an example, you know, the bernie sanders candidate got more than 7 million votes in the first round. all of those voters had to choose between the far right le pen but anti-establishment, the socialist voters, or the centrist establishment macron. we spoke to, again and again, voters who felt stuck, weren t sure. socialists, remember, who went all the way over to le pen. it is a sophisticated election, the french elections. important, i think, not to just take simple readings from it. although, of course, the simple