NEW POLL--FG/Lab now 6% closer to Govt Parties

[Deep Throat]

It is reported that tomorrow's Sunday Tribune/IMS poll shows a swing to Fine Gael and Labour, with Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and the Greens all losing out.

The reported results are:

FF 39 (-3)
FG 22 (+2)
LAB 12 (+2)
SF 7 (-1)
PD 5 (+1)
GRN 5 (-1)
Others 10% (-)


This puts the Government on a combined 44% (-3), with the FG/Labour/Green alternative at 39% (+3).

More at RTÉ News.

[angelcountry]

tomorrow's tribune/IMS poll
ff 39 down 3
fg 22 up 2
lab 12 up 2
sf 7 down 1
greens 5 down 1
others 10% no change

usual ff post budget bounce has gone

What about the PD'S :

[pjb07]

woot

[Salthill]

PDs 5% +1

Making FF/PD 44 FG/Lab 34 and FG/Lab/Gr 39

These are, however, meaningless additions of figures.

FF down a bit, FG & Lab up a bit, everything else not worth commenting on.

What are the bets on FG industriously hyping this yet again, with the media swallowing it yet again.

[Salthill]

BTW, in relation to this "swing to" figure, are we now to say that there was a "swing to" FF of over 10%?

This is a phrase which has some relevance in British polls but none in our system in the absence of panel data to say where votes come and go to.

[pjb07]

this makes ff/lb 51%

[Sidewinder]

Is 22% not a bit low for FG? Most other polls have been showing them in the 24-27% range for months. Since when did they dip to 20%? And 5% for the PDs, after they became irrelevant and McDowell was finally exposed as a blowhard, coward and fraud in Bertiegate - aye right.

[smithfield1]

The january polls - comming so close to the budget giveaway - is ment to give ff a bounce and depress the alternative. Surely it is newsworthy that the opposit has happened???? FG/LAB are perfectly entitled to see this as a boost!!!!

[Salthill]

And the pub;lic is perfectly entitled to be sick and tired of endless poll-based sounding off by politicians.

It's very, very boring.

[tonys]

The january polls - comming so close to the budget giveaway - is ment to give ff a bounce and depress the alternative. Surely it is newsworthy that the opposit has happened???? FG/LAB are perfectly entitled to see this as a boost!!!!

Sure and aren’t they perfectly entitled to see anything they want to see.