As with the 1981 General Election, such a significant change in Dail representation levels will effectively
prove a major «game changer» and could well shift the dynamics of
electoral success decidedly towards / away certain political parties and political groups and could well act to accelerate the level of political change that may be associated with that election.
Like Trump, de Blasio acts as if his limited
electoral successes are evidence he is riding the crest of a great and irresistible social tide, and that the polls
proving his deep and intractable unpopularity are a kind of fluke, rather than the other way around.