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Month: April 2010

Has Clegg trumped Cameron’s ace?

Has Clegg trumped Cameron’s ace?

SkyNews What does this do to “Vote Yellow get Brown”? In the eleven days since Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats emerged as a force at the first debate the blue team’s main line of attack has been “Vote Yellow get Brown”. Given the ongoing unpopularity of the Prime Minister and the desire for change being shown in the polls this had a lot of potency which would have dominated the Tories’ final week’s campaigning. That has been knocked on the head…

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The Sunday night round-up

The Sunday night round-up

This is a regular feature which will run every Sunday night up until polling day, to include the last set of figures from each pollster, as well as the current seat spreads from the betting markets, and also international updates. The pollsters Last poll from each pollster Con Lab LD Oth Lead YouGov 25 Apr 34 28 30 8 Con 4 BPIX 24 Apr 34 26 30 10 Con 4 Ipsos-MORI 23 Apr 36 30 23 11 Con 6 ComRes…

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Lib Dems back in the 30s in the daily poll

Lib Dems back in the 30s in the daily poll

YouGov Daily Poll – Sun Apr 25 Apr 24 CONSERVATIVES 34% 35% LIB DEMS 30% 28% LABOUR 28% 27% What’s probably going to be the only poll out tonight, YouGov for the Sun, has some good news for the yellow teamafter a few days when its share with the pollster was on the decline. It’s now back at 30% while the Tories are down a notch to 34%. Labour also see an increase. While this is all margin of error…

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Latest majority betting

Latest majority betting

Majority betting NOM CON LAB OTH/LD Ladbrokes 4/6 11/8 16/1 20/1 Political Smarkets 72% 37% 10% 10% There have been rumours about tonight’s YouGov poll but we’ve been caught before. We’ll wait until we get some authoritative source we can link to. Mike Smithson

As postal voting is about to begin……

As postal voting is about to begin……

Top 5 postal voting seats 2005 Postal ballots issued LAB-LD swing required 2010 Newcastle North 45.4% 8.5% Stevenage 45% Rushcliffe 39.9% Newcastle Central 36.7% 11.5% Newcastle East 35.4% 10.5% National average 12.1% …is this why Cleggie headed first for Newcastle? I was very struck on Friday with the oddness of Clegg’s travel schedule on the day after the Sky News debate in Bristol. On the face of it you would have thought that he’d have headed out to some of…

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What was this all about?

What was this all about?

Was this the weirdest moment of the campaign? I’ve now watched this several times and I still can’t answer my own question. Why has a complete news cycle for Labour been dominated by Gordon and the Elvis impersonator? What was the plan? What was the big idea? UPDATE – I’ve changed the video clip to the Channel 4 version – it’s even more strange. Majority betting NOM CON LAB OTH/LD Ladbrokes 4/6 11/8 16/1 20/1 Political Smarkets 57% 40% 5%…

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The positive polling news for the Tories continues

The positive polling news for the Tories continues

YouGov Daily Poll – S. Times Apr 24 Apr 23 CONSERVATIVES 35% 34% LIB DEMS 28% 29% LABOUR 27% 29% BPIX/YG Mail on Sunday Apr 24 Apr 17 CONSERVATIVES 34% 31% LIB DEMS 30% 32% LABOUR 26% 28% MORI – News of the World Apr 23 Apr 19 CONSERVATIVES 36% 32% LIB DEMS 23% 32% LABOUR 30% 28% Is MORI an outlier? Overall it’s been a good polling night for the Tories with the party well established in the mid-30s…

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