Perhaps what the results in France can teach all of us is...
If the people of France believed their own press and felt paralyzed at what it was proclaiming as inevitable. If they took the polls to heart and given up... the worst would have come to pass.
America - fuck your press, fuck the polls, fuck your talking heads.
Fight for your country, vote for what you know is right - in your hearts. It is your vote at the ballot box that counts. Nothing else.