Love the Balance

 From todays' New York Times coverage of the French elections:

The party held on to its traditional strongholds along the Mediterranean coast and in the north of France and won a significant number of small cities in the far north and far south. But that would not be enough to triumph in a presidential election, said Jean-Yves Camus, an expert on the far right at the Jean Jaurès Foundation, a left-leaning think tank based in Paris.