GE20 – Slugger O'Toole

After #GE2015… The UUP reborn, or just lucky?

Mick Fealty on May 14, 2015, 6:52 am

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Guess what, there’s another UUP success that I didn’t see coming. In my mind, though in retrospect it was a flawed form of thinking, I honestly thought South Antrim would fall to the party quicker than Fermanagh and South Tyrone. In fact they won both, and nearly took Upper Bann. Despite my own trepidation last year, if the Unionist pact played to anyone’s strength it was the UUP rather than the DUP. FST came in for them at a relative canter, reflecting …

Feed us with turnout data from your local polling station(s)!!!

Mick Fealty on May 5, 2010, 9:23 pm

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I’ve just been on Talkback speaking with Steve Hewlett of the Radio Four Media Show fame and Wendy Austin about the general nature of the election campaign and the role of the Internet. One point I would like to make (and no, I didn’t get to make it), is about the capacity of an intelligent online readership to add significant value to the wider understanding of what’s actually going on. Last year our readers were able to make intelligent guesses …