@todayInIreland@SkelligKerry My best on the tests. On the coffee. Yes indeed we are getting better, the problem is you can't yet be certain. Most of the Irish blends are cat, leading to burnt bitter horrors. Frankly Aldi and Lidl provide cracking coffee, cheaper than the blends.
@GTCost It seems to me that battleground states were known for years, so why didn't they throw money at them via federal housebuilding and infrastructure. At least try to give poorer voters an idea they were being thought of. All the rest split 60/40ishy both ways.
@LarryPDonnelly The Dems need to go back to basics. 1st ask what a good income is, then ask what can be done for those below that figure. It may be simple technical fixes like lifting the tax from $13.8k to $25k. Certainly build more housing. Prevent interstate poaching of business.
@JenWilliams_FT Money isn't sticky anymore. Once money went into a local bank and was loaned out in the area. If the bank needed to draw in, it went to London. Plus the taxman has become too efficient, and not. For they squeeze the pips for some, but cannot touch others.
@KatieGHannon@franmcnulty @mcculld I don't feel an enthusiasm for this GE, and I'm slightly annoyed seeing all the posters cluttering up the place. Nor have I heard any chatter about it when out and about either.
@NLWales As with Ireland, and to a certain extent Scotland, drawing a relatively complete list is hampered by the movement of the poor to English cities and enlisted there.
@gavreilly The Greens are a goner. SF has shifted from a party of dissent to one that is covered by the same playing card as FFG. Then the Allsorts, 14 ?. I doubt Labour has passed the hell they visited when with FG, so will remain a rump. Alt-Rt, maybe 2.
@arthistorynews Elections are about cold hard cash, of one sort or another. And those that fail to get that will lose. A few weeks back a huge storm hit the east coast States and DC should have rained money given an election was imminent, but didn't. Ergo NC and Georgia to the Reps.
@asymmetricinfo In the 1950s the UK herd was 10.9million cattle, and it's been hovering around 10mil since. What's happened in between was the vast increase in chicken, and efficiencies by cutting out high st butchers with prepacked in the supermarkets.
@LarryPDonnelly I sense FF Fg Lab and Green can't count on more than their core vote. So it depends on the mood/ire of the electorate on the day. But I think SF vote sits far higher, closer to 30% still, and could hit 40 with a wind.