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    First Irish Times / TNS-MRBI poll

    Any word ?

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    No.

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    Friday, with sourcework done today and tomorrow, I understand.
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    that will be interesting surely there can't be another boost for Ahern in the wake of all the doubts over the weekend! OK, McDowell made a hames of it, Enda and Pat are playing kid gloves over what happened last time.. and doubtless rte are being set up for another softly softly Diana moment ('please leave me alone').. at this stage the mans version of events is about as credible as OJ Simpsons defence!!!
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    Surely he can't be given free rein to make his statement as a free party political broadcast?

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    Well Mad Mack did on liveline last week!

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    Don't put much stall in this poll. It is too out of line with the others on FG in particular.

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    It has a proven record of reliability. IMS has a proven record of unreliability. Red C is new and has no proven record. TNS/mrbi is taken by all the political parties as the definite poll. PD HQ pays more attention to it than any other poll, which is why it finds low PD results in TNS/mrbi polls seriously worrying.

    Among the main pollsters, IMS, TNS/mrbi and Lansdowne, TNS/mrbi has a proven record dating back to the late 1970s when as the Market Research Bureau of Ireland it did polls for the Irish Independent. Its accuracy level is the highest by far over thirty years of polling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Insider2007
    Red C is new and has no proven record
    well actually it can be compared against one election result - the 2004 locals

    ff - overestimated them by 1%
    fg - underestimated by 3%
    labour - overestimated by 4%

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    Quote Originally Posted by Insider2007
    It has a proven record of reliability. IMS has a proven record of unreliability. Red C is new and has no proven record. TNS/mrbi is taken by all the political parties as the definite poll. PD HQ pays more attention to it than any other poll, which is why it finds low PD results in TNS/mrbi polls seriously worrying.

    Among the main pollsters, IMS, TNS/mrbi and Lansdowne, TNS/mrbi has a proven record dating back to the late 1970s when as the Market Research Bureau of Ireland it did polls for the Irish Independent. Its accuracy level is the highest by far over thirty years of polling.

    But I prefer to believe RedC because phone polling is more accurate and the managing director of RedC used to make the tea at ICM and ICM predicted the 2002 result and MRBI overestimate FG and they predicted PD meltdown in 2002 and the people don't want a cryptounionist government and Labour are marxists and MRBI poll people in groups and don't write off Mae Sexton and the Greens will destroy the economy and FF/PD/Ind is still a runner and Tim O'Malley was on 4% in 2002 and blah blah blah.....

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