David Trimble thinks that David Burnside is likely to finish 500-1000 votes ahead. We are hearing conflicting reports. Indeed one senior journalist told Slugger of one Catholic she knew of in Crumlin who was going to vote Willie McCrea. Even Trimble himself remarked that “sometimes David doesn’t seem to understand that a lot of his votes come from Alliance voters” – refering presumably to Burnside’s hardline pitch to realign the party with the DUP. Precisely the opposite to Sylvia Hermon’s tactic of targeting Alliance voters. As one alliance insider told Slugger, “It would seem that Hermon’s strategy is the more likely to pay off”.
Mick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty
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