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Month: April 2012

Which company do you rate most in the high-tech world?

Which company do you rate most in the high-tech world?

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Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter . . . twitter.com/pollreport/sta… — PollingReport.com (@pollreport) April 8, 2012 A slightly different poll for Easter Monday A very common form of questioning in US polling which we hardly see in the UK is the favourable/unfavourable format. This has become the standard for candidate ratings and here the ABC/Washington Post survey applies it to high-tech companies. That Google has a slight edge over Apple is interesting – I’d have guessed the other way round particularly following…

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Is the Mail group giving up on Cameron?

Is the Mail group giving up on Cameron?

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Mail on Sunday Could it be pressing for a pre-election change Sometimes the most important factors about a poll are not the findings but how the commissioning newspaper is covering it. That, I’d suggest, is the case today with the Mail on Sunday’s April survey by Survation. By any standards the coverage, seen in the panel reproduced above, is not very friendly and suggests that the paper would not be too upset if Cameron stood down. Simon Walters writes ..Perhaps…

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LAB drops 4 as many more get on the UKIP bus

LAB drops 4 as many more get on the UKIP bus

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Farage’s party moves to equal third place slot with the LDs There’s a new voting intention poll out for the Mail on Sunday which has others, including UKIP, at 24% which I believe is a record and suggests a move away from the established parties. The shares are with changes on March: CON 30 (-1): LAB 35 (-4): LD 11 (nc): UKIP 11 (+3). The 30% CON share is the lowest from any pollster for the party since Cameron became…

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Are OTHERS set to do well on May 3rd?

Are OTHERS set to do well on May 3rd?

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David Herdson asks: Is now their best chance to breakthrough? The nature of George Galloway’s victory in Bradford West might have been a one-off but the anti-politics mood it fed off is present far more widely. Mike has recently made timely observations that the combined net approval scores for the three leaders with YouGov is at what is probably a record low of -121%, and that despite a rapid drop in government economic trust figures, Labour has barely benefited except…

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ComRes kicks off what could be a terrible Easter for ministers

ComRes kicks off what could be a terrible Easter for ministers

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Dave/George/Nick slump to record lows on economic trust Since October 2010 the ComRes polling for ITV news has asked who people trust to lead the country through the current economic situation. The April figures are bad for the coalition:- David Cameron’s trust figure is down five to 31% and the do not trust David Cameron increasing six to 53% George Osborne’s trust figure is just 21% with 60%, up eight from last month, saying they do not trust the Chancellor…

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Could the 45p tax rate have cost the blues a majority?

Could the 45p tax rate have cost the blues a majority?

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Has this been the main driver of their ratings dive? As we finally get to the Easter weekend perhaps now is a good time to reflect on the dramatic change in the political climate in the past three weeks when everything that could go wrong seems to have done so for the Tories. To me the most crucial element was the budget with the introduction of the 45 pence tax rate for those at the top of the earning ladder….

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Will full tax disclosure now become the norm?

Will full tax disclosure now become the norm?

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Will we follow the US way for candidates? Ken Livingstone has now followed Brian Paddick and Boris Johnson in revealing details of his income and taxes paid following the commitments made in the Newsnight London mayoral debate last night. There’s still a row over what should be made available with the LAB contender demanding that the “full household income” be the basis for the disclosure. I wonder whether the precedent has now been set that so many more contenders for…

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