All politics is local?

WorldbyStorm

Oct 29

The latest SBP/RedC poll demonstrates little or no movement in the polls. Sinn Féin up a point, the other two down a point, Labour and the Social Democrats up a point apiece. What struck me was the static nature of support, but also the fact that despite the more global issues they seem to impact not at all on the polling of parties. You'd have to really reach to see any connection. I find that interesting but I wonder what, if anything, it means. After all the government has done well, all things considered, in terms of articulating a very necessary dissent from many larger states approach, and a range of parties have put persuasive analyses forward. Or perhaps people feel that these events - harrowing as they are - are largely beyond the grasp of Irish political activity at various levels and other pre-existing issues at this level (a key caveat) take precedence.

One small further aspect, isn't the FF support level incredibly low in these particular polls? Is that likely to be replicated come a vote?