Business Post/Red C Poll 31/05

[Gabha Óir]

and perhaps even in how the front page is made up the Saturday before the vote? As in:

[SIZE="3"]Ganley's Euro hopes fade[/SIZE]...

Or indeed the first photo being MLM's glum looking face with -3 below her name

[FutureTaoiseach]

I wonder could Red C's use of telephone-polling be a factor in the results, notably if there is a reluctance (as there used to be with FG voters) for Libertas voters to out themselves face-to-face?

[Marlowe]

Those results are very imformative. They suggest FF is in dire trouble. Plus anyone on the doorsteps today will have seen a new swing against FF over the banks. Plus the polls have not captured the impact of those who were hit by the new taxes yesterday. To make it worse, the unemployment figures will be out on election day. (Dear God in Heaven! How dumb is the government that they pick as election day the day of unemployment figures? They cannot even pick a date for the election - they could have gone for the previous day - without making a muck of it!)

I presume the latest exchequer figures will be out next week as well. More unpleasant reading I would suspect.

[edifice.]

This posting problem is a pain.

[TommyO'Brien]

I presume the latest exchequer figures will be out next week as well. More unpleasant reading I would suspect.

Yup. Its going to be a bad bad week for the government. But the most damaging will be the unemoployment rate. The big issue is jobs, and our incompetent government has chosen as the day for the election the day of a massive reminder of the loss of jobs.

If someone wrote that in a novel, it would be dismissed as unbelievable!

[Limerick Lad]

I wonder could Red C's use of telephone-polling be a factor in the results, notably if there is a reluctance (as there used to be with FG voters) for Libertas voters to out themselves face-to-face?

There was a time when you used to eulogise the methods and accuracy of Red C polls above all others, what's changed?

[TommyO'Brien]

There was a time when you used to eulogise the methods and accuracy of Red C polls over all others, what's changed?

The results!

[FutureTaoiseach]

There was a time when you used to eulogise the methods and accuracy of Red C polls over all others, what's changed?

My comments are meant as adding credibility to their methods in the current context of FF unpopularity and a possible end to the reluctance of Blueshirts to out themselves.

[hiding behind a poster]

Testing, testing, testing.....

(Edit) Thank God, I'm back - two days unable to post.....

[edifice.]

The deal with the Religious Orders must also have an impact.