Larry Donnelly

Well, just, you know, it reflects the reality of the United States as a massive country.

That's where the Democrats' difficulty lies there.

So it's in terms of the message or in terms of building a coherent message across.

Somebody like Zoran Mamdami plays well in New York City.

He doesn't play well in Kansas.

So they need to be a big tent and have a coherent overarching message, but at the same time allow for deviation from the party line in order to maximize gains.

I think Fergus's point is actually a key one.

Of course, the way the media operates, there was that one line that everybody sort of seized upon

But if you look at everything he said in that podcast, and due disclosure, I'm a contributor to Path to Power as well.

But if you look at everything he said in that podcast, you know, it wasn't that sort of blunt.

There was one blunt line, but a lot of it was sort of, you know, speaking about himself not being that far removed from Rural Island.

I think the fact is that one blunt statement probably wasn't true, but neither are some of the reactions we've heard from Rural Island that this idea that Dublin gets everything.

That's not true either.

So I won't say the truth lies somewhere in the middle, but it is much more nuanced than that.

Have they not?

Yeah, I mean, it is.

There's no getting around that.

And I think some of what we saw in the protests and everything else, the manifestation of the anger that I think is out there, and I think it's being felt in a big way by people in their pockets.

That having been said, one of the other interesting things, I think, from this poll is that if we look at perhaps the two political entities most closely identified with the protests and the blockades, that is Sinn Féin and

An independent island independent island is cast here as the big winner.