{"id":32321,"date":"2012-05-04T15:02:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nicolas_sarkozy_closes_gap_on_francois_hollande_in_final_polls\/"},"modified":"2012-05-04T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T15:02:31","slug":"nicolas_sarkozy_closes_gap_on_francois_hollande_in_final_polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32321","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Nicolas Sarkozy closes gap on Francois Hollande in final polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final polls before France&#8217;s presidential election on Sunday show President Nicolas Sarkozy making up ground on Socialist challenger Francois Hollande &#8211; but still predict a Hollande victory.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sarkozy on Friday predicted a &#8220;surprise&#8221; and Mr Hollande urged his voters to avoid complacency as the bitter campaign neared its climax, driven by fears about joblessness, immigration and France&#8217;s economic future.<\/p>\n<p>A poll by the BVA agency shows 52.5 percent support for Hollande and 47.5 percent for Sarkozy. A poll by the agency CSA shows 53 percent for Hollande and 47 percent for Sarkozy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/france\/9245516\/France-election-Nicolas-Sarkozy-closes-gap-on-Francois-Hollande-in-final-polls.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final polls before France&#8217;s presidential election on Sunday show President Nicolas Sarkozy making up ground on Socialist challenger Francois Hollande &#8211; but still predict a Hollande victory. Mr Sarkozy on Friday predicted a &#8220;surprise&#8221; and Mr Hollande urged his<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32321\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,200,468],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-europe","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}