Fun fact: A week before the Presidential Election of 2011, Michael D. Higgins was as good as dead and buried. The final two opinion polls – Red C for the Sunday Business Post, published the Sunday before the election, and Ipsos MRBI for the Irish Times, published the Monday before the election, had Sean Gallagher with a commanding lead. Gallagher led by 14% according to the Business Post, and 15% according to the Irish Times.
Four days after the Irish Times poll came up with that result, Higgins reversed the position and beat Gallagher into second place by a 12-point margin: 39.6% for the Labour candidate as against 28.5% for Gallagher.
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