Saturday, February 26, 2005
Boost for Bertie
A new opinion poll has shown a significant improvement in ratings for the Government,the Taoiseach and Fianna Fail.
The Millward Brown/IMS poll,which is published in today's Irish Independent,gives the Government parties an eight-point lead over a possible coalition of Fine Gael,Labour and the Greens.Government satisfaction is up 6 points at 51%.
The ratings for the parties show:
The Millward Brown/IMS poll,which is published in today's Irish Independent,gives the Government parties an eight-point lead over a possible coalition of Fine Gael,Labour and the Greens.Government satisfaction is up 6 points at 51%.
The ratings for the parties show:
- Fianna Fail at 42% (up 5)
- Fine Gael at 20% (down 3)
- Labour at 12% (down 1)
- Sinn Fein at 9% (down 1)
- Greens at 5% (unchanged)
- PDs at 3% (down 1)
- Others at 10% (up 1)
The ratings for the leaders show:
- Bertie Ahern at 61% (up 6)
- Enda Kenny at 46% (up 1)
- Pat Rabbitte at 52% (down 1)
- Mary Harney at 52% (down 3)
- Trevor Sargent at 35% (down 6)
- Gerry Adams at 31% (down 20)
I agree with Richard Delevan's assessment that these results are due to the strong performance of the economy.As Bill Clinton famously said,"It's the economy,stupid." Fine Gael and Labour still have alot of work to do...
# posted by United Irelander @ 6:12 PM 
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