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June 7th
Unsurprisingly, voters across Europe think that tackling migration is an important priority
That’s two of the media’s top two topics – Gaza and RTE – barely registering with the electorate at all, while the voters care about things that have been shunted significantly down the news agenda.
As of now, the “Yes” side is in a very strong position, and it’s incumbent on the “No” side to think carefully about how to reverse that in the time remaining.
The big challenge now? Convincing the people who are living in a bubble that they are, in fact, living in a bubble.
It is not the next election that the Irish establishment should fear. It is the one after that.
Gaza might be dominating politics, as Pat Leahy wrote on Friday. But immigration is dominating the minds of voters.
This is a Government – and in fact an entire political class – with very low levels of respect and admiration from the public by historical standards.
Newstalk
Shift in opinion
“Further expansion of the motorway and road network.”
“If it was Sharon Ní Bheoláin or Gráinne Seoige, the numbers would be reversed.”
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