New Poll: Vast majority do not accept Ahern's testimony

[toxic avenger]

Unlike FG we don't expect our politicians to be saints. They are not purer than pure. We elect politicians to govern in our interests. We're not electing the abbot of a monastery.

You're not serious are you? Perjury and corruption are acceptable character traits? You've become debased by Ahern if you think that.

Accusing someone of perjury seems to break the rules in the Dev section where 'don't accuse people of committing crimes' was mentioned.

The opinion poll says most people believed he didn't tell the truth. Thus the opinion poll says 70+% believe he perjured himself. And you don't think that can be mentioned? The majority of the people in the state believe their leader lied on oath and we mustn't mention it? The Dear Leader really has you running in circles. Support your party, not the man demeaning your party..

[hiding behind a poster]

What I said was after FG went BACKWARDS after Bertiegate that nothing would surprise me and that it was not inconcievable they could lose seats if they continued to go backwards and FF continued to gain. It was never a prediction, it was simply an observation.

So your predictions are just observations, while other people's observations are predictions? That's ridiculous. That just brings us to the stopped-clock theory, whereby you throw out loads of off-the-wall predictions, and if just one is right, you claim to be a genius.

You are happy to use the MRBI poll made in the days just before the election as "proof" of the accuracy of their polling methods. If you apply the same logic, you should use the prediction I made at roughly the same time.

I use every pre-election MRBI poll from the previous 30 years as "proof" of their accuracy. And EVERY prediction I made during the run up to the election was based on the most recent poll data - unlike you, however, I was prepared to use each company's historical record of accuracy or otherwise, and temper my predictions accordingly. So, for example, when IMS produced another of their ridiculous polls that showed FG support down around 20%, I noted that due to several aspects of their methodology, along with their past record, FG support was likely to be several points higher. You, on the other hand, couldn't bring yourself to see that - because to do so would prevent you from going on another round of hysterical Kenny-bashing - which seems to be all you live for.

One prediction I repeatedly made from the day I first posted on this site to the day of the vote, was that the next (now current) government would be led by FF and that FG were never in serious contention to lead the government.

So what about the MRBI poll that had FG on 31%? If you believed the one that had FF on 41% three weeks later, why didn't you believe that one? Again, because to do so wouldn't suit your laughable anti-Kenny agenda that you continue to peddle on this site.

For my honestly I took many posts of personal abuse, from you amongst others.

That's not honesty, its opinion. And if you really find being called an idiot to be "personal abuse", then you really must be very thin-skinned.

However within an hour of the first ballot box being opened it was obvious that I had it right, and THAT is what really bugs you, if and when you're man enough to admit it.

No, it doesn't bug me in the slightest. You believed what you wanted to believe, and it turned out to be true. But if you look back at the analysis of the final pre-election MRBI poll, you'll see that I said an FF-led government was now likely. Because when I'm analysing opinion polls, I judge the FACTS - you'd like to think you do, but the reality is that you choose the facts that suit your opinion, and ignore the rest.