If every street in South Belfast was like Ormonde Park, Dr Alasdair McDonnell could expect to have one of the largest majorities in Westminster.
At almost every door the SDLP's South Belfast candidate is greeted with a smile and a promise to vote. "You needn't have bothered ringing, you'll get our votes," is a typical welcome.
A small middle-class estate in Finaghy, on the southern edge of the constituency, Ormonde Park is perhaps 80 per cent nationalist with, the doctor reckons, most of the rest being Alliance voters.
This is a good place to bring a journalist; if Dr McDonnell was not doing well here he should really give up, but the response on the doorsteps would seem to show that the election could be, as he has predicted, "a cliff-hanger".
Although middle class, the area is not without sectarian tension. The crossroads at Finaghy is a regular trouble spot as youths from the loyalist Taughmonagh estate try to protect "their" territory from being encroached upon by Catholics from west Belfast, which effectively begins a mere 100 metres from the junction.
Originally mixed, the estate is now, like large swathes of the constituency, increasingly nationalist as upwardly mobile families migrate there from the west and grow up.
There is little republican rhetoric here though - almost the only time policing is mentioned is when Dr McDonnell is called on to contact the RUC on issues such as traffic calming or the tensions at the crossroads.
Well, almost. One couple tell Dr McDonnell that they would never vote SDLP again as it has become a "unionist party".
They berate his party for accepting "what was given to you" on police reform and say "you would be quite happy to sit in Stormont with the UUP for the next hundred years," before assuring the doctor he can't count on their vote on June 7th.
Minds aren't changed on the doorsteps anyway, Dr McDonnell says, the real goal is to motivate both voters and party workers.