Welcome back Miss Amy! Nice to see your face in the place.

Sorry to have to bring up politics, but we can't get away from it. Apparently, from this RJR article, Omar Davies lives in some kind of protective bubble to be not "fazed" by the mind-numbing violence in his constituency.


Sun Jan 1, 2006

Violent constituency fails to faze PNP Pres. candidate


The campaign director for Peoples National Party (PNP) presidential candidate, Dr. Omar Davies, Donald Buchanan says he does not expect the violence in Dr. Davies' South St. Andrew constituency to affect his run for the leadership of the party.

South St. Andrew has been torn apart by violence over the past two years with more than 50 people being killed in the PNP stronghold.

The violence has continued unabated despite efforts by Dr. Davies to broker peace between the rival factions.

Political analysts have argued that the violence could seriously damage his quest for the leadership of the PNP.

But Mr. Buchanan says the violence should not affect Dr Davies candidacy.


Mr. Buchanan says over the next few weeks, Dr. Davies' campaign team will be seeking to consolidate the gains he has made with the delegates of the party and win the support of others who are undecided.

Dr. Davies will be challenging Portia Simpson Miller, Dr. Karl Blythe and Dr. Peter Phillips for the leadership of the PNP when party President PJ Patterson steps down in the next few months.
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Apparently Portia's high poll ratings are mostly personality driven. Will her numbers hold up on voting day?

www.jamaica-gleaner.com/g...lead5.html

WHILE PUBLIC opinion polls show Portia Simpson Miller is more popular than her counterparts in the People's National Party (PNP) leadership race, there remains a strong view in some quarters that she is not the most suitable to lead.

The Sunday Gleaner-commissioned Don Anderson Polls show a clear average popular support of 50 per cent or more for Mrs. Simpson Miller. However, in a recent interview with students at the University of the West Indies (UWI), a significant number of interviewees expressed the view that Mrs. Simpson Miller, though honest, was an incompetent negotiator and indecisive leader.