Unless Michael D Higgins commits the most spectacular act of political hari-kari in modern times, he will be re-elected to the presidency at a canter next week. It is not impossible for Higgins to lose the election; politics is often a game of late twists. Whatever its other merits, Higgins’s strategy of campaigning on his own terms has so far a canny political judgment. President Michael D. Higgins and the other presidential contenders carved into Halloween pumpkins at Fallon & Byrne's Exchequer Street Store, Dublin. Perhaps his opponents will throw everything they have at Michael D; perhaps they will decide turning negative isn’t worth it at this stage.

Source: The Irish Times October 17, 2018 03:56 UTC