Will Channel 4 be doing an instant Cameron poll?
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Could such a survey be the decider for Gord?
For poll watchers last week’s Channel 4 News from the YouGov panel in the immediate aftermath of Brown’s speech was a great innovation.
For it’s always been suggested that the publicity that leaders’ speeches attract do give a big boost in poll ratings but I cannot recall a time when we have been able see this from reaction within little more than 24 hours while the coverage was still dominating the headlines.
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It would have been great the week before to have seen whether an instant poll after Ming’s speech had had an impact on Lib Dem ratings.
I hope we can look forward to Channel 4 repeating the exercise in the aftermath of Wednesday’s speech by Cameron. It will enable us to compare like with like. Labour’s lead went up 5% in the immediate aftermath of Brown’s speech – what will be the scale of the Cameron effect?
For party conference season involves the media stepping up a gear in their coverage of politics and it becomes much closer to what we would expect in a general election campaign.
Mike Smithson