Can Sarkozy make up a double digit deficit? So far we’ve hardly covered on PB the big election in Europe this year – the battle for the French presidency – which takes place in only a couple of months. This is a huge contest as Nicolas Sarkozy attempts to hold on against a fierce challenge by socialist leader, Francois Hollande, and will get lots of media attention in the UK. Last time there was a lot of interest in the…
How serious is this? There’ve been dramatic moves in the Republican nomination betting during the past few hours which have seen the price on the former governor of Texas, Jeb Bush, move in from 70/1 on Betfair to about 20/1 now. This put the brother of the last Republican party president into the third favourite slot for the nomination behind Romney and Santorum even though he is not a declared runner and is not on the ballots in any of…
The one change is within the margin of error.The only noteworthy thing is that this is the first time since October 2010 that the blues have led the reds. This poll by ComRes online for te Indy on Sunday and the Sunday Mirror is the first non-YouGov survey this month. Unless there’s a major upset the general election takes place on May 7 2015 and I doubt if these numbers will affect any betting markets. @MikeSmithsonOGH
Will he be a winner once again? An unusual year with more famous names than I can remember, two inexplicable omissions (‘Senna’ and Tilda Swinton) and a silent movie which could sweep the board. Talking of omissions congratulations to Mrs ‘Marquee Mark’ for her work on Coriolanus. As good a film of a shakespeare play as I’ve seen which could easily have been nominated in up to three categories. So here are the nominations followed by my two euros worth……..
Do this year’s double local elections provide a return route? If the bookies are right, Boris Johnson is well-placed for a second term as London’s Mayor. If the pollsters most recent results are right, it’s too close to call. Those two things aren’t necessarily contradictory – the polls reflect people’s intentions now whereas the bookies are taking bets on what they expect to happen in May. It may be that Johnson will campaign more effectively than Livingston, or that the…
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Have we got out of the habit of buying papers? When the News of the World was closed last July there was a big effort from other titles to try to grab a share of what was the biggest selling Sunday paper. The latest circulation numbers, see here, suggest they had some success but they failed to pick up a lot of the lost sales. The Sunday Mirror, the People, the Sunday Express, the Star on Sunday and the Mail…
Portland Press How come all the initial errors are in his favour? If you think that we have been here before we have. After the debacle in Iowa at the start of January which led to Mitt Romney’s victory on the night being taken away from him there now must be a good chance that the same is about to happen in Maine. On Saturday night there was an enormous sigh of relief at Romney’s Boston HQ when the news…