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Doesn’t this need to be more than a negative message?

Doesn’t this need to be more than a negative message?

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Who, for instance, does it want you to vote for? This is the latest “squeeze” post-card that’s gone out by mail to potential LD voters in key marginals, apparently from Labour. The interesting thing is that it does not mention the name of the party anywhere. All we have is information about the alleged consequences of voting Lib Dem. It’s also based on the false assumption that all Lib Dem supporters will naturally fall in line behind Labour when the…

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Is speed of rebuttal going to be decisive?

Is speed of rebuttal going to be decisive?

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SkyNews Who’s winning the “jobs tax” skirmish? With just five days to go before the election is expected to be called there’ve been furious exchanges over a letter from business leaders about the impact on jobs of the NI changes. It started when Peter Mandelson declared that the bosses had been fooled into backing the Tory plan. In a fast moving news cycle two of the bosses have now hit back at what they describe as “patronising” claims. All this…

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Multi-voting for the many and not the few

Multi-voting for the many and not the few

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The PB guide to fiddling simple on-line polls How to vote as often as you want This is not rocket-science and many PBers will know this already but I thought a guide to how to fix simple online polls might be timely. No doubt we’ll see a deluge of them in the next few weeks and the more people know how they can be fiddled the less notice that will be taken of them. It really is quite simple. The…

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Are the Tories playing the Gordon card too early?

Are the Tories playing the Gordon card too early?

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Would they be doing this now but for the polls? The ads above are the first from Tory party’s new releationship with M&C Saatchi who, now doubt, have done a lot of research on what images of the PM most suit their purpose. It was inevitable that at some stage during the camapign that the Tories would play what they believe is their strongest card – Gordon Brown’s unpopularity. For even during the recent Labour recovery in the polls the…

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Announcing the PB Bar Chart competition

Announcing the PB Bar Chart competition

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Who’ll be the most “creative” with the use of numbers? With tactical voting looking set to play a crucial and possibly decisive role in the coming battle this could be the general election of the bar chart. These are deployed by campaigners of all colours to persuade supporters of other candidates in specific seats that their choice does not stand a chance and that they offer the ONLY WAY OF BEATING/STOPPING XYX in that constituency. Mostly the appeal will be…

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Does this Tory ad flatter Gordon too much?

Does this Tory ad flatter Gordon too much?

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Doesn’t the uniform make him look better than he is? Launched this morning is the latest Tory poster which seeks to link Brown with UNITE with the BA strike. Politically it’s clearly the right thing to do – but has the party made a cock-up in the way it’s executed. To my mind the cap and the uniform and the UNITE logo appear pretty smart and really make Brown look quite good. The idea of Brown as “captain of the…

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Will this Labour effort persuade Lib Dems to switch?

Will this Labour effort persuade Lib Dems to switch?

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Will rubbishing Clegg encourage tactical voting? Being identified on both the Labour and Tory central databases as a Lib Dem in a highly marginal seat I’m getting a lot of attention from both big parties – this latest, an expensive postcard, came in the mail this morning. Squeezing known LDs is clearly a key strategy but I just wonder whether this approach is right. To me it shows simplistic thinking which might look smart at Labour HQ but is not…

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Cameron hit most as all the leader ratings drop

Cameron hit most as all the leader ratings drop

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“Is Brown/Cameron/Clegg doing well-badly as PM/CON leader/LD leader ..” “Well” “Badly“ +/- Brown 36% (36) 60% (58) -2% Cameron 48% (50) 44% (39) -7% Clegg 43% (42) 31% (28) -2% Are the Tories right to make Brown the issue? This is the second of my planned weekly threads on what many pundits believe are the best guide to forecasting general elections – the leader approval ratings. The comparisons above are the net change as compared with last week. These are…

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