Author Archives: Gerry Lynch

A UKIP breakthrough in 2015?

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Gerry Lynch

Crossposted at Slugger O’Toole… UKIP has been consistently polling in the high single digits and low double digits across Great Britain for well over a year now. This is the most significant and sustained burst of polling for a fourth … Continue reading →

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US Election Braindump

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Gerry Lynch

Crossposted at Slugger O’Toole… I am too tired and too discombobulated from number crunching to post a coherent, concise article, but there is much of interest in yesterday’s American election results. This was a decisive election for the world’s most … Continue reading →

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Know Your Battleground States 9/9: Florida

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Gerry Lynch

Florida, the United States’ incredibly flat protrusion into the sub-tropics, is an enormous and rapidly changing state, perhaps about to overtake New York as the third most populous state in the Union, and by far the biggest of the battleground … Continue reading →

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The youth vote: Cynicism of the first post-Troubles generation of voters

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Gerry Lynch

This article appeared in the Belfast Telegraph of 16 June 2012 Northern Ireland’s youngest adults have no memories of the worst of The Troubles. From September, new voters coming onto the electoral register will be people who were not even … Continue reading →

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