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On the Campaign Trail With Dr. Barnett
posted (October 8, 2015)
On Tuesday, we showed you our first campaign trail coverage, heading up to the General Elections. Tonight, we take you into Freetown, another battleground for both mass parties, where newcomer Dr. Carla Barnett is seeking to defeat the 3 time area rep, Francis Fonseca, who's also the Leader of the Opposition. By all objective indicators - she should be the underdog because her party, the UDP is looking for a third term - and generally it's very difficult to defeat opposition candidates since they aren't in power and no one can be upset with them for not delivering goods and services. And Third, he's the leader of the opposition - the man who would be Prime Minister and that alone is worth a few hundred votes. So, Carla Barnett should not be expected to win - but the UDP feels that she has a better than average chance. We went on the campaign trail to find out why:…

We have one correction to our story, we said that Freetown had the greatest number of new registrations and transfers. That's an error; Lake Independence has the greatest number, but Freetown has the largest percentage of new voters coming in the last registration and transfer period.

Also, we tried our very best to convince PUP Leader Francis Fonseca to grant us permission to observe him on the campaign trail. He did respond once explaining that he did not have time that day, but our multiple text message and phone call follow-ups went unanswered. WE'll keep trying to meet him on the trail..

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