I'm not seeing signs of French posters in the forum. Is there a "Mudchat?" ;-).

Anyhoo, NPR has run several articles on the coming vote, and while it seems to favor 'non' which would mean the European Constitution is NOT adopted, I guess I've picked up a couple of points.

There are doubts that Holland would approve it anyhow.

In France, many people are motivated by local concerns, so they are voting 'non' as a means of registering disapproval of their own government. To me this seems a parallel case of the one last year where the Spanish voted out their pro-war government for an anti-war government after the train station terror bombings, saying in part it was a reaction to the standing government trying to blame Basque nationalists for the terror. In other words, there are issues framing the election that are not directly concerned with the specific object of the vote.