"I've lived in Paris for a long time and I've never actually voted at Harry's Bar, (...) apparently it's a good predictor of what's going to happen," says Steven Sampson, an American literary critic, after casting his ballot in the establishment's “straw vote” box. The bar has been inviting Americans living in Paris and tourists in possession of their passports to give their opinion on the American presidential elections for a hundred years now. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES