Looking for Kadima front man Ehud? Perhaps wondering where the heck he is with elections mere days away? Seems the UK Telegraph found him and serves up a bio, as well as some insight to his "I’m not here" election strategy ; )

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The elections have been boring to my shagrin, some mud slinging, some poll movement, but not much in the way of platforms or policy, everyone seems to be banking on Kadima (the media at least)..

Here’s one guy making some waves, the kind of waves that call for a right wing government not formed of Kadima, but put forward by a unified Likud led right wing. With 20% undecided, there are more than enough votes out there to make the wave a tsunami on election day. Personally, I’d take it over a Kadima / Labor coalition.

Labor mused this week about the Foreign Affairs portfolio, or the Defense portfolio if they got into the coalition.. That kind of crazy talk is more than enough to scare me off a Kadima vote, I’m pretty sure there are 20% out there who might be inclined to agree.. Flirting with Labor is not a great strategy to employ when a chunk of your support is made up from the Likud.

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Yediot has a fresh poll showing Kadima gaining a 2 seat bump (39) from the Jericho IDF operation this week. I skipped two other earlier polls by Haaretz that showed wacky results, sample size was about 600 people.. Too small.

Labour down 1 seat to 19, Likud at 15, Shas 11, National Union 8, Israel Home 10, Meretz 4.

Also, Ynet has their 2006 page up with a few articles and opinion pieces on the elections. Also included is a good summary on each of the parties. Pundits are calling this weekend’s poll numbers ‘crucial’.

Tags: Israel, Elections

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Smaller parties picking up the slack, poll shows huge 20% undecided swing vote.

Globes has some interesting numbers, according to this sweep that’s another 2 seats. Which if it jives with other polls to be released would mean Kadima has been steadilly losing two seats a week, with over two weeks yet left in this election. The undecided numbers in this globes polls are also quite large..

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Olmert, not too pleased by having Abbas quoted as saying he endorses Kadima.

Likud & labor both react:
Likud: You see we told you so
Labor: Jilted Lovers..

It’s ok No can Du, you can endorse me! I’ll be sure to represent the Palestinian people as unfairly as possible, just like Yasser!!!

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Kadima party favorite drop two seats (39), Labour left drop one (19), Likud right gain one (16) and smaller Israel our Home party (right) gains 2, with plenty more seats on the right via smaller religious parties with big blocks (see ynet)

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I’ll be delivering the view from the cheap seats. Israeli politics can get nasty, but not nearly as nasty as my commentary.

Primer in case you want to get up to speed

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