Luntz: this is about as complicated as it gets for any country’s electorate…

Again on RTE: Frank Luntz reckons that ‘Pub politics…’ is the key to Bertie’s success… “People were angry with him, and they like they way they took it…” He’s clearly struggling with how his idea of a contract with the people, he sold to Enda and Fine Gael didn’t seem to work… “You are much more civil, you are much more decent to each other…”

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