Hollande to beat Sarkozy?

A Socialist most French think to be overwhelmingly dull and boring is looking more and more likely to beat President Sarkozy in the forthcoming presidential elections. Hollande came though the SP leadership pack after the fall of DSK, and looked initially to be a desperate choice. But a combination of declining fortunes for the incumbent, and Hollande's numbing ordinariness seems to have won over large parts of the French electorate. The underpinning issue is the nature and rate of change proposed by President Sarkzy, which is offending too many sections of French society. Germany will be watching this contest with interest, as German domination in Europe requires French support, and Hollande would be less easy to manage than Sarkozy.