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Well the story of the US campaign season, how a cartoon managed to raise $95,000 in days for a new aspiring politician, Sean Tevis in Kansas. If you’ve ever read XKCD read on. (Wikipedia entry for XKCD)
Update: Almost 300 people have answered so if you haven’t already please do. Special thanks to politics.ie for putting it on the front page. Poll will close Friday night with results soon afterwards.
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Rough details here, more as it comes out. Its mostly as you were, FF unchanged, Greens at 7%, FG unchanged while Labour loses 1%.
I suppose that it will come as a bit of a surprise to both sides as both Labour and Fine Gael could not have been happier with 1)their start to the Dail [...]
My name is Maman Poulet and I’m a recovering election blogger. It’s been a few days since my last blogging round up, and the politician bloggers are still blogging so I thought I’d round them up for ye.
Joan Burton had fish, chips and left over chablis to celebrate her re-election on Friday, she avoided the [...]
There was an “appetite for change”, there was a platform for change but there were no votes for change. The fallout continues to baffle many from all around politics, the Fianna Fail vote share of 41.2% is a huge result for a government trying for a third term. The electorate seem to be prompting for [...]
Suzy steals the show atop our web roundup. Her interview with Radio 5 Live’s pods and blogs slot was almost like a meta-roundup. Great stuff and great listening.
To matters electoral. Eastmeath blog has some pertinent questions for any voter in the region preparing to vote. Most of those questions apply elsewhere, I reckon.
So did the €70million clanger last night which was hurriedly changed to 40million cause Bertie to run away from the readers of the Irish Times in an online webchat today?? Harry McGee has more about FF’s Jim O’Keeffe Moment.
Cllr Michael O’Brien (Labour - Carlow Kilkenny) notes that some people have been reading his blog and [...]
Furlongs, home straights, last turns, final miles, it is all before us now. The barrage of dodgy racing analogies can be taken out and dusted down for excessive use all week. For here we are, the final days. Press release of the day comes from Fianna Fail. Fizzy drinks bad. Its party policy.
We’ve been missing a few bits of compulsory ephemera and staging this campaign. Ah the electoral rally - Thomas Byrne (FF- Meath East) had a visit from Bertie at the beginning of the month. And it’s recorded for posterity. I nearly ran round the corner to Dance World and bought a pair of hard shoes. [...]
Eric Byrne steals the limelight again as far as political blogging goes. This time he’s updated on youtube as well. The Labour party could learn from Eric alright - it still refuses to allow comments on its official blog.
Meanwhile, on the rest of the web, Enda’s failure to bitchslap Miriam O’Callaghan while taking Bertie roughly [...]
Hijacking the press release spot is Twenty Major with an extraordinarily prescient summary of the debate we watched (unfortunately) this evening. Damien had enough time to get his response up. That bad.
Ah you never know who you’ll meet when you are out canvassing! Pat Rabbitte met Mr. Tayto in Limerick which was grand for both of them I’m sure. (Cheese and Onion or Salt and Vinegar?)
My weblife roundup is dominated - nay, subsumed - by the weird and wonderful life of Jim Tallon.
Jim is standing in Wicklow, and here’s his party political broadcast.
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Everybody is talking about the outburst. The PD/Green one, of course, today it hit Parlon country. Mary White is very mad claiming that Tom Parlon is “blustering” over live exports. Parlon suggests (and quites the policy from which it comes) that “The Green Party does not promote or support live exports of animals..”. Mary called [...]
Press release of the day without doubt to the Progressive Democrats for this effort “PDs launch Arts and Culture policy with piano recital by Frank McNamara. What is likely to be his best talent, to be quite honest about it.
Sorry to those of you expecting Suzy, she will return for tomorrow’s stint on the roundup. First up this evening is not our famous press release of the day (although parties are now competing for the title, we are informed), is a post worthy of press releasing. Eoin at Cearta makes a great case for [...]
Dominique Moisi in the FT: The gold medal for selfishness may once more be given to the Irish, who have followed the ingratitude of their No vote on the Lisbon treaty with absolute contempt towards the search for a collective solution to the financial crisis. The European spirit is low and a “European political will” is lacking.
Cathal Coleman out at my alma mater emailed the details of his adult education course on Democracy this morning. The course is called The Worst Form of Government: Democracy from Plato to Marx and full details are in the pdf.
Bertie at the Tribunal - The Money Trail | Keith @ Granite Shavings
Keith has a great post tying together the threads of Bertie's evidence at the Mahon Tribunal
Obama takes the gloves off and the US Election gets dirtier. Take a gander at his new ad attacking McCain's dirty campaign.
Female Clinton Supporters In Focus Groups See Talent, Mudslinging In Palin’s Speech
Very interesting instant focus grouping of Palin's speech. It remains to be seen how the issue of sexism becomes resolved for the Hillary supporters who remain to be won over - how does Palin need to come across to get support? As tough as the men or picked on - and is she better of playing base politics than worrying about marred Clinton-women in Nevada
