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		<title>Seanad Reform: too little, too late, too narrow?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the reports are that the government will consider allowing the Seanad Reform Bill 2013 to go through to committee stage this afternoon. I think we&#8217;ve gone beyond the point of tinkering with the Seanad within the constraints of the constitution. We should be looked at changes to the totality of the Oireachtas and local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piece on Gender Quotas from IT of last year</title>
		<link>http://www.danielsullivan.ie/blog/?p=2408</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Electoral Amendment Political Funding Bill 2011 has been poorly served by a media debate focused almost entirely on the problem it is supposed to solve, namely the underrepresentation of women in the Oireachtas, rather than any real assessment of whether it can actually solve it. When it comes to electoral politics, those most deeply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some practical matters for the Constitutional Convention</title>
		<link>http://www.danielsullivan.ie/blog/?p=2397</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dsullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of people in recent weeks have called for the future of the Seanad to form part of the considerations of the Constitutional Convention. Self-serving calls from incumbent members of that self-regarding body for a limited examination of the functioning of the appendix of the electoral system should be ignored by the government. Much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Caucus Republican party</title>
		<link>http://www.danielsullivan.ie/blog/?p=2370</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dsullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that the Iowa primary is rapidly becoming less about who wins on Jan 3rd but who loses the most and who exceeds expectations enough to carry momentum into the later contests. At the moment I would predict the following Michele Bachmann 7% &#8211; She has her core vote but in the battle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Government&#8217;s Gender Quotas Proposal</title>
		<link>http://www.danielsullivan.ie/blog/?p=2359</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dsullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proposal on electoral gender quotas are just the sort boneheaded solution to a problem that ends up giving the problem a bad name. Candidate Quotas will not attract the sort of women who are currently inclined to avoid contesting elections because of the well touted 4 C’s of Cash, Culture, Childcare and Confidence. Quotas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When political daydreaming passes for electoral analysis</title>
		<link>http://www.danielsullivan.ie/blog/?p=2351</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dsullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a quite stunning piece of  &#8216;electoral analysis&#8216; in the Irish Times yesterday, now I&#8217;m no holder of a candle for Sinn Fein as most would know but this piece is a complete distortion of SF&#8217;s presidential campaign and it&#8217;s successes as well as it&#8217;s failures. And don&#8217;t worry I will be getting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dublin West By Election 2011 Prediction</title>
		<link>http://www.danielsullivan.ie/blog/?p=2342</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dsullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the polling for the Dublin West by election time happening tomorrow there is only a little time for me to whisk up some more egg for my face. The last poll to take place here was for the general election and you can get the full result of that here. The main parties broke down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egg on face 2</title>
		<link>http://www.danielsullivan.ie/blog/?p=2338</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dsullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we&#8217;re going into the final furlong or the last straight and the race has shifted considerably since the first attempt at this I had made. And how wrong that was, or right in some cases. Never one to back away from the table when there is the chance to double down and get more egg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fine Gael&#8217;s Presidential misjudgement</title>
		<link>http://www.danielsullivan.ie/blog/?p=2327</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dsullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it would appear that Gay Mitchell is tanking in the polls, and that his chances of winning the contest are declining faster than the Kerry team in the last 5 minutes of the All-Ireland. Now while I don&#8217;t think that his poll showing is really all that reflective of how he will do on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Presidential election and the 2 and half men strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.danielsullivan.ie/blog/?p=2319</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dsullivan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Gallagher]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To hell with opinion polls, let&#8217;s try picking some actual numbers based on the reading of entrails and the deductive reasoning of a biased pundit. I mean I couldn&#8217;t be much worse that this guy. So here goes, as it stands right now this is how i think the respective candidates are really set to [...]]]></description>
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