Undecided voters - All to play for, with 42% still unsure

WITH the Fianna Fáil-PD coalition mired in crisis, today’s Irish Examiner national opinion poll shows crucially that four out of 10 people have not decided which alternative government to vote for in the General Election.

According to the survey by Lansdowne Market Research, 58% of the electorate, including grey voters, know how they will vote — but a staggering 42% of those questioned last Tuesday and Wednesday, especially young voters, had not made up their minds.

With swing voters vital, the sheer scale of “don’t knows” is a sharp reminder that every ballot paper will count as controversy flares over the murky issue of the Taoiseach’s finances in the 1990s.