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Tactical Voting Re-think

Mark Devenport | 16:49 UK time, Thursday, 15 April 2010

I've just recorded the regular weekly slot for tonight's Hearts and Minds, accompanying Ian Knox's cartoons. One anecdote from the DUP's Jim Wells was about canvassing in Ballynahinch. A DUP supporter told Mr Wells apologetically that he'd like to give him his vote but he'd decided to back the SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie to keep Sinn Fein's Caitriona Ruane out. The voter took a bit of persuading that this bit of tactical voting wouldn't work, as a change in electoral boundaries had now put him into the Strangford seat and Mr Wells was canvassing not on his own behalf but in support of his colleague Jim Shannon.

On the subject of Ian Knox cartoons, the public affairs consultants over at Stratagem tell me there' s an original to be won by whoever correctly predicts the winners of

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