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General Election TV debates

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭Millionaire only not


    When it will come to Election Day wait and see Fine Gael rebound !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Lackey


    Watch as MM tries to charm Eamon.....The greens are going to have a great election.....and MM knows it.

    I don’t think so
    In Dublin maybe but outside that not so much


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    Very sad to see a strong democratic political party, older than the state, so peripheral.

    Ok their promises of 2011 weren't realised. But still.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭shenanagans


    C__MC wrote: »
    Leo is the big winner tonight
    Hell be happy with his show and the bickering between the other two
    Weather its enough to help FG, hard to say

    He kept his head down for most of the debate and out of trouble. But he needs to make up serious ground over the next week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,195 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    McMurphy wrote: »
    Micheal Martin is being rattled time and time again by Mary Lou McDonald, she's tearing him and his agenda to shreds.

    Think you are watching the wrong debate.

    Martin has landed some serious blows on Mary-Lou that were completely unanswered, she shifted around behind her podium while responding, her body language clearly showing the lies.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    They are battling for a lot of votes that can go one way or another. Very interesting.

    Watch the odds in kerry for the last seat. Right now its

    FF
    1/3

    SF
    4/7

    See if there is a move tomorrow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,549 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Poor Micheal, he’ll never be Taoiseach and he knows it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,490 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    How much do these electoral leader debates influence voters I wonder?
    Someone mentioned on here last week about 1% but don't know where they got that figure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,700 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    Very sad to see a strong democratic political party, older than the state, so peripheral.

    Ok their promises of 2011 weren't realised. But still.

    Blatent lies.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    Good closing speech for Mary Lou.

    Stuck it to FF again.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭shenanagans


    PBP guy is terrible.....stealing MLM lines


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,373 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    Mick Barry stealing Mary Lou's lines.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,542 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Lackey wrote: »
    I don’t think so
    In Dublin maybe but outside that not so much
    I think the carbon tax etc will put some Dublin people of voting for them.
    I won't be giving them a vote, they were a disaster last time they got in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭shenanagans


    leahyl wrote: »
    Poor Micheal, he’ll never be Taoiseach and he knows it

    Thats not what the polls say


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,429 ✭✭✭Mortelaro


    McMurphy wrote: »
    She's 1-18 on to top the poll in North Kildare last time I checked. FFs James Lawless her nearest rival, but still way behind.

    Basically Murphy could don a pair of shades, put on some soul music and stoke up a doobie on this debate and she'd still be on a cake walk to be elected.

    Yeah but that's in her bailey wick where shes loved tbh
    Her job tonight was to raise the SD profile
    She didn't


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,569 ✭✭✭blackcard


    easypazz wrote: »
    Watch the odds in kerry for the last seat. Right now its

    FF
    1/3

    SF
    4/7

    See if there is a move tomorrow.

    If those are the odds, the bookies will definitely be winning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,542 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Stop interrupting the final addresses.....it looks terrible


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Well the one thing that this debate has convinced me of is that Ivan Yates is a prick.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Blatent lies.

    The party itself is a loss. I get your point though.

    You go back over the history of the state. Labour a solid number 3. 15-18% vote.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭Pintman Paddy Losty


    ML very uncomfortable there answering the questions about the Ard Comhairle. You could smell the cordite from here.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79,480 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    1. Leo and MLM tied
    2. Brendan Howlin
    3. Eamonn Ryan
    4. Catherine Murphy
    5. Michael Martin
    6. Mick Barry

    Had to have a long think about the last two...Martin really really is in trouble, his desire to lash out at SF is ruining his campaign. I could see Leo pulling this out of the fire yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,542 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Thats not what the polls say
    He has said over and over he won't go with Sinn Fein, so how is he going to get the numbers to form a government without FG?.

    It's going to be FF and FG again....FF might be majority.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,167 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Eamon Ryan is TERRIBLE.

    He is reading from a page looking down ffs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Naggdefy


    Youd have to wonder what their internal polls are saying though. He looks very nervous here compared to the Claire Byrne debate.

    True.

    The interviewing style hit MM more than MLM at any rate.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    Thats not what the polls say

    All the polls are over a week old.

    A week is a long time in politics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭shenanagans


    Lackey wrote: »
    I don’t think so
    In Dublin maybe but outside that not so much

    I disagree.....a lot of young people will vote Green. They'll hit at least 12 if not up to 15 seats.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    All of them are terrible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,167 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Brendan seems to see himself as a Taoiseach in waiting


    loLoLOL


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,700 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Naggdefy wrote: »
    The party itself is a loss. I get your point though.

    You go back over the history of the state. Labour a solid number 3. 15-18% vote.

    Up to 2011 I was sticking up the posters and canvassing for the LP. All of that changed when they rolled back on every redline issue.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,542 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    1. Leo and MLM tied
    2. Brendan Howlin
    3. Eamonn Ryan
    4. Catherine Murphy
    5. Michael Martin
    6. Mick Barry

    Had to have a long think about the last two...Martin really really is in trouble, his desire to lash out at SF is ruining his campaign. I could see Leo pulling this out of the fire yet.

    It wouldn't be a surprise at all. He's been very steady in every debate.


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