The political consultants Stratagem have conducted a survey of more than 50 MLAs together with a London polling company, ComRes. They asked the politicians to name their favourite candidate in the US Presidential Race.
32% backed Hillary Clinton
29% backed John McCain
22% backed Barack Obama
Apparently McCain was the favourite amongst DUP MLAs, Obama amongst Sinn Fein MLAs, whilst Hillary Clinton drew support across the board.
Somehow, though, I think she'd swop any number of MLAs for just one Democrat superdelegate.
The survey also asked the MLAs to name their who had been their greatest political influence.
Ian Paisley topped the poll, followed by Margaret Thatcher, then Martin Luther King.
Other figures who featured included the former SDLP Leader John Hume, the former UUP Leader Lord Trimble, the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, Bobby Sands, Edward Carson and the future First Minister Peter Robinson.
Our four main party leaders have signed a letter condemning it, and our four main church leaders have backed them, but today, as MPs debate the time limits for abortion, there is no sign of any Westminster amendment intended to extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland.
Yesterday the DUP put out another in a series of statements criticising the Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris for tabling a "disturbing" amendment designed to "impose a liberalised abortion regime on the Province". It's true that Mr Harris has previously been quoted as supporting the extension of abortion here However when I spoke to the Oxford West MP last week he told me he had no such amendment and was not dealing with the issue.
It's not impossible that such an amendment could be tabled at a later stage. One of our local MPs told me he was getting some flak from English MPs. He said they took the view that if Northern Ireland MPs wanted to interfere in the time limits for abortion in England, then maybe English MPs should interefere in the ban on abortion here.
But so far there has been no amendment tabled - so, if that remains the case, were fears of such a move missplaced or has the united nature of the local anti-abortion campaign deterred English MPs from tacking this issue on to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill?
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