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Why is Gerry Hutch doing so well?
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Hmm, I assume it was both. For example: which of the following two options is the best way to deal with X: Option 1 | Option 2. And yeah 31% seems like a lot, but it doesn't tell us what kind of restrictions these people would like to see, eg temporarily lowered immigration caps vs the more brutal options championed by MAGA et al.
Just that it is a split equalling 100 might mean it was two wildly different approaches offered as the only answers to the question which I think would be quite leading.
Ah, yes. I see what you mean now. Well spotted! That said, I imagine those are the two main options people consider when it comes to the housing crisis, no?
I would say there is a lot more I would be considering from the sales process, building regulations, poor infrastructure support from ESB and Uisce, terrible planning process, to the push for residential property as investments and associated tax benefits from forgoing traditional investments in favur of housing.
Immigrants are those that they hope to take advantage of by renting out properties.
If it was an either or I would throw out all results of this survey, feeling good isnt worth lying to ourselves.
The purpose of the survey was to capture broad public attitudes, though. The result is socially significant since it tells us which explanation people lean towards. A binary question is still useful for that, even if housing is obviously complicated.
Do you think we need more houses for white couples to populate the country or to help house horrible immigrants who ruined their country and are now flooding ours?
I get what you are saying but if it was binary between the two it left a lot of context out and bizzare specifics in