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Photo by Libération. Looks like Macron 23.7% and Le Pen 21.9% to the second round, with Fillon and Mélenchon in the 19s, third and fourth respectively, and the ci-devant Socialist pretty much dead for the moment.

Not the worst result you can imagine, by any means, especially since the polls for the deuxième tour favor Macron very strongly, as if Obama's intervention for Macron and Trump's for Le Pen may have made a difference (Trump's in the opposite direction from the one intended).

Clinton led Trump by 2-3 points
Remain led Leave by 1-2 points
Macron leads Le Pen by 26 points in runoff polls

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 23, 2017

Most enjoyable Schadenfreude point is the way rightwing Twitter is unable to understand that the first-round numbers—not an exit poll but a statistically valid sample of real votes—are real, and keeps reporting partial numbers from the officials as if they were going to last:

LE PEN AT 25.2%, MACRON AT 21.1%: INTERIOR MINISTRY AT 8:21PM

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 23, 2017

That's commtment, reporting the #fakenews up to the very last minute. https://t.co/8ISOU1IcDm

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) April 23, 2017

Hope to post something more funny or profound later, but in the meantime have some more Puffed Tweet and useful links:

You put someone in charge of the EPA who'd sued it 14 times. https://t.co/bNk7csEdRe

— shauna (@goldengateblond) April 22, 2017

@KBeetel @goldengateblond Every one of those 14 lawsuits was by Scott Pruitt (Oklahoma AG) and friends on behalf of Big Energy https://t.co/2IyFNwDHb5 Now he runs it.

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) April 23, 2017

@KBeetel @goldengateblond Better ask what kind of idiot nominates a Koch Brothers tool https://t.co/zXk3DxHLxc to run the agency he's been trying to destroy.

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) April 23, 2017

@KBeetel @goldengateblond And what kind of idiot files 14 lawsuits against one defendant when practically all of them lose? https://t.co/gPLaXw4r18

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) April 23, 2017