But her light bulb moment didn't come until she was driving home from work, tired after an all-night shift in the emergency room.

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But given the constraints of international finance and economic structures, observers said Hollande will not really have room to maneuver to shift France radically to the left.

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Given the constraints of international finance and economic structures, observers say that if Hollande is elected president he will not really have the room to maneuver to radically shift France to the left the way his Socialist predecessor Francois Mitterrand did three decades ago.

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