Harris (Daily Mail) Apr ??? Apr 6 CONSERVATIVES 37% 37% LABOUR 27% 28% LIB DEMS 22% 20% LAB to CON swing from 2005 6.5% 6% This morning we reported the new Harris poll in the Metro that had Labour up a point. There’s now a new survey from the firm for the Mail tomorrow that has the party down a point. So we have a ten-point lead for the blues and Labour only one point up from what Angus Reid…
A CON – LAB swing – Eh? There’s a new poll out from Ipsos-MORI on Norwich South where ex-home secretary and fierce Brown critic, Charles Clarke, is facing a tough fight with the Tories, LDs and the Greens. The numbers with changes on the 2005 election: LAB 39%(+2): CON 20%(-2), LD 19%(-11):, GRN 19%(+12). The voting intention question listed all the candidates names as well as their parties and like with all Ipsos-MORI poll the sample was not past voted…
Edmund from Tokyo has produced a great little widget designed to help PBers follow threads better. It’s simple to install on Firefox or Google Chrome and simple to operate. These are some of its features as Edmund explains:- An “Ignore†link will appear next to each comment. When you click on it, it will hide the text of any comments by the poster you chose to ignore. It stores this information in a cookie in your browser, so it will…
YG daily poll: The Sun Apr 8 Apr 7 CONSERVATIVES 40% 37% LABOUR 31% 32% LIB DEMS 18% 19% LAB to CON swing from 2005 6% 4% What does this say about the opening salvoes? After last night’s YouGov poll which was distinctly out of line with the rest we now have Cameron’s party back on 40 with Labour down at 31%. This will give real boost to the blue team and be a jolt to Brown Central which was…
Message from Robert: I am about to ‘flip’ the DNS settings on our brand new load balancer. This should increase our web serving capacity significantly (we go from one web server to three), and improve page load times too. There may be some… inconsistencies… while this is happening. If you are having trouble seeing the site at any point, you can always go to https://www1.politicalbetting.com. Alternatively, for those of you using Windows machines, hit Windows-R to bring up the “Run…
I was waiting to put up a new thread when some big polling news came out. I thought it would have been out by now. So in order to avoid too much pressure being put on the server please continue the discussion here. Mike Smithson
Message from Robert: I attempted to upgrade the main politicalbetting webserver (codenamed Ming) last night. Alas, this was not a success, and it refuses to come back up. The problem seems to be related to the onboard clock. We are therefore currently running solely off of webserver number two (aka Gideon). This may result in some slow performance tomorrow morning. Rest assured, I will get it up and running as soon as possible. If you find the main site slow,…