It really isn't a presidential campaign for me. I've seen better campaigns during the latest communal elections over here, than this one. The so-called "presidential campaign" of Antwerp's mayor comes to mind (a lot of "famous" people from Antwerp pictured in black and white, and the text (handwritten!) simply said "Patrick" with no reference to a political party whatsoever). Or the poster with prime minister Guy Verhofstadt (Flemish liberals) and vice-minister of budget Freya Vandenbossche (Flemish socialists) together on a bench to give their support to the liberal-socialist coalition that was ruling their hometown Ghent and wanted to stay on. Both these campaigns succeeded where Bayrou fails: they were up-to-date, without direct party-ties, and played on a person without being about this person. In the first case the one you had to vote for didn't appear on the actual posters, but his supporters. In the second case the two personalities portrayed had nothing to do with city politics, because they're both in the federal government. And both campaigns received a lot of media coverage that went wider than where they were actualy needed, i.e. national media showing a campaign that's made for a sole city! Err yeah, I'd never vote for Guy Verhofstadt, but that specific campaign was very well done. I'll see whether I can find images...