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After Hours Presidential Election Poll

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    #32
    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,433 ✭✭✭touts


    Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »
    Right, that's sorted then. Close the thread.

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    Well it's how Higgins's hero Castro won most of his "elections".


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    #33
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    The Phantom Jipper wrote: »
    I think the results of this poll says more about the users of After Hours than the outcome of the Presidential race

    Even on here, I expect Michael D will pass Casey out. The people who claim to hate Travellers have probably blown their load too early. The gap is narrowing.


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    #34
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    dhaughton99 wrote: »
    Wasn’t going to vote myself but will definitely vote now since PC showed us his balls.

    Oh get out of the garden. You're falling for a spoof!


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    #35
    dav3
    Registered Users Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭dav3


    The Phantom Jipper wrote: »
    I think the results of this poll says more about the users of After Hours than the outcome of the Presidential race

    No no you don't understand, Casey will sweep to power in the first count. After hours is never wrong. Especially when it comes to minorities.


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    #36
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »
    Even on here, I expect Michael D will pass Casey out. The people who claim to hate Travellers have probably blown their load too early. The gap is narrowing.

    I have no doubt Michael D will see a second term - I don’t think as many people were swayed by the expenses thing as we are led to believe. Most of us see it for what it was and MD for the great president he is.


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    #37
    bloodless_coup
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭bloodless_coup


    Abortion and gay marriage after hours polls were very accurate to the results.

    Looks like Casey will make Ireland great again!


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    #38
    Pretzill
    Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    Too early to cast my vote yet. Without doubt it was Michael D all the way until last night's debate for me, now I'm not so sure - I don't know if any of them deserve my vote. Casey in fairness to him, whether I agree or not, isn't afraid to speak his mind. Freeman came across as petulant, Duffy is a chancer, Ni Riadh's voice grates on me, Gallagher looks like he's permanently stifling a fart and then there's the incumbent?


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    #39
    moby2101
    Registered Users Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭moby2101


    Casey all the way


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    #40
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users Posts: 8,315 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    A vote against travellers. It’s got to end well. :rolleyes:


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    #41
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,409 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    A vote against travellers. It’s got to end well. :rolleyes:


    Quite a dilemma if he does get elected.


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    #42
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    no doubt Higgins will win but a boost for Casey will be an acknowledgement of public rejection of the pavee point narrative which is totally at odds with most people's lived experience.


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    #43
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,952 ✭✭✭Degag


    Looking at the poll, I really hope that AH is taking the absolute piss!!


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    #44
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Degag wrote: »
    Looking at the poll, I really hope that AH is taking the absolute piss!!

    Why? He's said nothing wrong.


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    #45
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,952 ✭✭✭Degag


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Why? He's said nothing wrong.
    I didn't say he had; in fact i agree with him. However just becuase he makes one statement - a brave statement if you will, does not mean he is suddenly a logical canditate for the presidency. He's quite the opposite in my opinion!


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    #46
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Why? He's said nothing wrong.

    I don’t think anyone would disagree with you but one statement, however accurate it may be, does not make him a good choice.


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    #47
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Degag wrote: »
    I didn't say he had; in fact i agree with him. However just becuase he makes one statement - a brave statement if you will, does not mean he is suddenly a logical canditate for the presidency. He's quite the opposite in my opinion!
    yes but the presidency being pretty much a ceremonial role, people might take it as a safe opportunity for a protest vote.


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    #48
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Degag wrote: »
    I didn't say he had; in fact i agree with him. However just becuase he makes one statement - a brave statement if you will, does not mean he is suddenly a logical canditate for the presidency. He's quite the opposite in my opinion!

    He's said one thing more than the other candidates so far at least.


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    #49
    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,519 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Michael D all the way for me so far.

    Casey is using his platform to sow division & hatred, creating an “us vs them” mindset. I don’t want that. It’s a slippery slope.


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    #50
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    dudara wrote: »
    Michael D all the way for me so far.

    Casey is using his platform to sow division & hatred, creating an “us vs them” mindset. I don’t want that. It’s a slippery slope.
    us and them came in when the sought seperate ethic status


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    #51
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    dudara wrote: »
    Michael D all the way for me so far.

    Casey is using his platform to sow division & hatred, creating an “us vs them” mindset. I don’t want that. It’s a slippery slope.

    In reality it is us vs them though.


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    #52
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Degag wrote: »
    Looking at the poll, I really hope that AH is taking the absolute piss!!

    They're not taking the piss - AH has always been a hotbed of anti-traveller racism - but we'll find out when the next poll comes out (probably in one of the Sunday papers) just how representative they are of society as a whole. Not very, I suspect.


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    #53
    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,519 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Define us and them - unemployed vs workers, Irish vs non-nationals, women vs men, Christians vs jews??

    Who is us and who is them? To someone on the other side of a fence, you’re “them”. Where does it stop?


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    #54
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    dudara wrote: »
    Define us and them - unemployed vs workers, Irish vs non-nationals, women vs men, Christians vs jews.

    Who is us and who is them? To someone on the other side of a fence, you’re “them”

    I'm talking about the traveller thing. But a couple of others you mentioned apply these days too, they just haven't been covered in this campaign yet and probably won't.


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    #55
    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,616 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    us and them came in when the sought seperate ethic status

    Il ask you this

    What in the jaysus do travellers or their ethnic status or a bunch of houses down in Tipp have to do with the presidential race.


    Here's the answer nothing.


    It's only something because this self promoting scumbag wants it to be.


    Get back on topic of selling the country internationally and being a brand ambassador.

    Anyone falling for this nonsense is a fool and needs to really look at themselves.


    And I've no love for travellers.


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    #56
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    dudara wrote: »
    Michael D all the way for me so far.

    Casey is using his platform to sow division & hatred, creating an “us vs them” mindset. I don’t want that. It’s a slippery slope.

    Mickie D is the more cost effective option. Whatever about his expenses leaving him in for another term will cost the taxpayer less. If a new president is elected that is another salary on top of Mickie d’s pension if Mickie d spends another term he won’t be drawing the pension for long after whereas the younger candidates will spend a third a lifetime drawing their pension.


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    #57
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Patww79 wrote: »
    I'm talking about the traveller thing. But a couple of others you mentioned apply these days too, they just haven't been covered in this campaign yet and probably won't.

    If a few votes can be exploited from pitting low-paid workers against the unemployed, I'm sure Peter Casey will have a go.


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    #58
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    listermint wrote: »
    Il ask you this

    What in the jaysus do travellers or their ethnic status or a bunch of houses down in Tipp have to do with the presidential race.


    Here's the answer nothing.


    It's only something because this self promoting scumbag wants it to be.


    Get back on topic of selling the country internationally and being a brand ambassador.

    Anyone falling for this nonsense is a fool and needs to really look at themselves.


    And I've no love for travellers.
    it's a real issue for tens of thousands of people up and down the country. nothing to do with the office of president I grant you but a lot of people agree with him, he said it, the mob came after him and he doubled down. that's rare in irish public life.


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    #59
    Faugheen
    Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Why? He's said nothing wrong.

    That travellers aren’t an ethnic minority? He actually did say that, and he’s incorrect.

    So yes, what he said was factually wrong.


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    #60
    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,616 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Ten Pin wrote: »
    If Casey gets even half the votes he has from this poll in the next media bubble poll, expect full on muck raking of him, his family and his business by the journalists currently boot licking the incumbent.

    Casey has no business being near the presidency.

    I don't take my ques from the media either.

    The fella is a cad. Give over with the liberal media licking nonsense. This is more of the victim vilification crap that moves around in this new reality . Everyone is so pc blah blah blah.


    Get off the podium


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    #61
    rossie1977
    Registered Users Posts: 11,341 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Only one winner according to bookies

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