RTÉ’s David McCullagh
Laura Fitzgerald, of RTE, writes:
RTÉ has commissioned independent research company Red C to undertake a comprehensive exit poll, interviewing over 2,000 people across Ireland immediately after they have voted on Friday 26 October.
The Presidential Election exit poll result will be announced on Friday night, following the close of polls, by RTÉ’s David McCullagh on The Late Late Show and published simultaneously on RTÉ.ie.
Further results and breakdown of demographics and sentiments of voting behavior will be released simultaneously on RTÉ.ie and RTÉ Radio 1’s Morning Ireland from 9.00am on Saturday.
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Hey; why not just go with a poll like this and avoid the expense of an election!
Why not just wait for the election results to come in and void the expense of the Red C poll?
That’s a pretty expensive Late Late show segment
a survey of 2000 people isn’t very expensive
That’s assuming they can find 2,000 people who can be bothered to vote in this clowncar of an election.
+lol newsjustin
Clowncar election is brilliant.
What’s the point of that?
I can understand in a general election you’d want an early idea on party seats, but a poll seems a bit much for a presidential and a referendum when results for the latter will be speedy enough and, even with the transfers, so will the six-horse presidential race.
I suspect this is just ‘content’ for an ailing chat show. RTE must be pretty desperate now that there’s no-one left in the canteen to interview?
There will be a winner without transfers as Michael D will have more than 50% of the vote.
Who needs a poll when we have George?
All the lads who think MDH wastes money had no issue with wasting money on a pointless election.
“Following close of polls”. How soon? Irish Times beat hem with the Repeal the Eighth result.
I wouldn’t knock it lads
the data their last one collated was very informative and detailed
we might hear some information about why people didn’t vote for the incumbent – was it his age, was it the revelations about expenses and jets
we might get information why people voted for Gallagher
we might get information about the Council selection process
Wait till the full detail is published or aired
then decide whether it was useful or not
Why?