Sinn Fein Most Popular Party but Government still in the Lead

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  1. Sinn Fein still don’t have enough people to form a government though do they? and the other major parties say they won’t join them in government so basically they won’t get into government ?

  2. It’s going to come down to vote management in the next general election, something SF have historically struggled with. Could you see half of Marylous vote voting for another SF candidate ?

    It’s also blantenly obvious a large part of the SF support doesn’t understand PRSTV. As reflected by the comments after the last election regarding the count Martin got in on, even though FF brought in two TDS in that consistency and the FF combined blew the SF poll toppers out of the water.

    Now they did get it right in Cavan Monaghan but Tully had years experience as a county councillor and did Trojan work for the area, was a school teacher in Cavan town and was fairly well liked by students and parents. Even at that when canvassed in Cavan I was asked to give Carthy a vote…..

  3. I wish i could trust Sinn Fein, but then they pull some shit in the north and go to a Ra funeral or “England out of Ireland” banner. I don’t like FG, I don’t like FF, I don’t trust SF, the GP are a bunch of out of touch dreamers and labor is, well, labor.

  4. Not a fan of FF/FG by any stretch, but I don’t see SF getting to government unless their support is more than FF+FG+Greens/Labour/Independents.

    Mind you, if they run two TDs in key constituencies next election, things will be really interesting.

  5. Just out of curiosity on a subject I know very little off.
    Would parties like social democrats and labour be more inclined to go into government with fg/ff or sf?

  6. SF have consolidated the opposition vote and chipped a small bit of support away from the government. Government are only ~5% away from their vote in the last election.

    Interestingly the same poll has Leo on a higher approval rating than Mary Lou. I’d love to know what percentage are “don’t knows”. They can have a huge impact on the outcome of an election.

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