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Already Lecanuet is estimated to have a sure 3,000,000 votes, and his support is still swelling. But neither Lecanuet nor any of the other candidates is likely to pass the leader in this election. What the five hope to do is to poll over half of the estimated 22 million votes likely to be cast Dec. 5. If they do, the rules require a runoff between the two top votegetters. That, for De Gaulle, would be a humiliating stoop from grandeur. But already the Gaullists, slightly alarmed by the swift start of the opposition, are preparing for the worst. A runoff, they were bruiting around Paris last week, would really be quite a good thing after all. Their reasoning: in the runoff, De Gaulle would surely clobber his lone opposition.