Some 46 percent of blue-collar workers -- traditionally leftist voters -- chose Sarkozy, according to an Ipsos/Dell poll, an AP report said.

Forty-four percent of people of modest means voted for him, as did 32 percent of people who usually vote for the Greens and 14 percent who normally support the far-left.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/07/france.election/index.html

So now that the masses have had their revolt, and brought us years of liberalism, they're finally (ever so slowly) seeing they were wrong and the pendulum is swinging back. I now understand why dictators seize power: to avoid being held hostage by the lack of judgment of others.