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Here is the Irish Times latest:
| FF | 40% | +1 |
| FG | 27% | + 1 |
| Lab | 11% | — |
| SF | 7% | –1 |
| Green | 4% | –2 |
| PD | 3% | –1 |
| Independents | 8% | +2 |
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What is interesting is how solid that 40% is, its 38% discounting undecideds where fine gael is losing roughly 7% of its vote in that poll with Labour dropping to 8%
Fine Gael/Lab have a lot to do. Especailly as a lot of the indo’s are in fianna fails court. and only I would guess jerry crowley, finian mcgragh (who might lose a seat) and michael lowry in fine gael/lab
Bad news for the Greens. The numbers from earlier polls (particularly RedC’s Dublin numbers for them) appear to be wilting already. Is this a case of people starting to decide which Government they want and then which party in that Government? We’re certainly seeing a flight in this poll from the smaller parties to the bigger ones.
You can’t really draw any conclusions from the 1% fall in PD support coming so soon after the Red C poll placing them on 4%. Red C use telephone polling which is supposedly more accurate. The exit-poll in 2002 placed PD support on 3.1% and they got 4% – conclusion: margin of error means what it says on the tin. Nonetheless there is one fairly consistent trend from these polls – 1-2% gap between FF-PD and FG-Lab-Green Rainbow. In that context I believe we are headed for a minority govt propped up by Indos.
Simon, Seamus Healy and Catherine Murphy are hardly likely to vote for Bertie either.
True. Still thats what 8/5 and your man in Dublin who went with haughey
Tony Gregory? He could either way in truth. All depends on what he is offered. There again, it is believed this would be his last election so he might decide to stick with his likeminded colleagues like Healy and Murphy.
Tony Gregory? Ya that chap for a political blogger I am not that up on my tds
I had a lot of time for Tony when I was a kid as he won’t wear a tie in the Dail. I thought that was so cool!
That statements says alot about your coolness rating dan
Sadly, you are all too correct, Simon.