Poll verdict sent a very clear message

“I coulda had class, I coulda been a contender, I coulda been somebody, not just a bum”... the comments by your columnist Steven King on the 1918 general election result (December 3) recall Terry Malloy’s whine in On the Waterfront.

In three provinces where nationalists and Sinn Féiners slugged it out toe-to-toe, the voters knocked the nationalists out of the ring in every constituency but one.

In Ulster, some of the five remaining nationalists kept their seats through pacts with Sinn Féin to keep them from falling to the unionists.