According to the Irish Times Ipsos B&A poll, early last week Heather Humphreys was trailing Catherine Connolly by 18 points among all voters. Excluding those who say they won’t vote, will spoil their vote or don’t know how they will vote, the gap is 28 points. That is an enormous gap to close. Can it be done? Perhaps. Presidential elections have swung dramatically before. But it would take something extraordinary. And tonight’s debate did not seem to contain anything like the sort of gamechanger that she needed.
Humphreys sought to come out swinging and landed some blows in the early exchanges, but having done
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