He has a ten point lead while Royal desperately — and I think despicably — threatens street violence if Sarkozy wins.

Update: A reader offers a dissent:

Jonah,
the IHT story to which you link doesn’t support the conclusion you
draw: that Royal’s comments are “despicabl[e].” It is equally
plausible that she is warning not that her own supporters will riot,
but that the banlieue Muslims will riot in response to Sarkozy’s
likely attempt to impose the rule of law and end de facto sharia rule
over the Muslim suburbs.
That seems totally fair to me — wrong as a policy matter, but fair.
How is it different than Republicans warning that the risk of
terrorist attacks will rise if we elect appeasement-minded Democrats?