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The Ashcroft polling on the leaders

The Ashcroft polling on the leaders

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From the Lord Ashcroft polling released on Friday, there was focus upon the three established party leaders. Overall, views of the three leaders have changed remarkably little over time. Asked to choose from a selection of words and phrases that might describe them, participants continue to choose “out of touch” for Cameron, with “stands up for Britain” as a positive counterbalance. Miliband remains predominantly “weak” and “out of his depth”, with no very prominent positives. Clegg contrives to combine the…

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How Ed Miliband compares to his predecessors

How Ed Miliband compares to his predecessors

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Now that we’re just a little under two years from the General Election, I thought it might be useful to see how Dave and Ed compare to the predecessors as Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition, and used their net approval ratings with Ipsos-Mori In the first of this series, I’m starting with how Ed Miliband compares with his predecessors in terms of net ratings.   A couple of notes about the data. 1) The figure from Margaret Thatcher…

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Now hints of a story you never thought you would see: Nick Clegg – the Comeback Kid

Now hints of a story you never thought you would see: Nick Clegg – the Comeback Kid

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After the worst figures for 23 yrs from MORI yesterday Clegg & LDs see their best numbers with YouGov since Nov 2010 twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) January 17, 2013 Update: Labour lead at 9 – Latest YouGov/The Sun results 16th Jan – CON 33%, LAB 42%, LD 12%, UKIP 8%; APP -28 y-g.co/10c9rhJ — YouGov (@YouGov) January 17, 2013 Cameron extends lead over EdM to 10% in YouGov’s best PM rating. He’s 33, EdM 23(-2), Clegg 7 (+2) —…

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The Clegg masochism strategy: The first leadership ratings have him up a net 9pc in a week

The Clegg masochism strategy: The first leadership ratings have him up a net 9pc in a week

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Nick Clegg’s net YouGov ratings at best point since March 2012. Now minus 45%. In Sept they were -63%. LBC effect? twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) January 13, 2013 Today’s net -45% the best in getting of for a year Piles of polling overnight including, as every Sunday morning, the YouGov leadership ratings. Cameron sees a net rise of 1 to minus 18%; Ed Miliband a net increase of 3 to minus 20% and Nick Clegg up 9 to minus…

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Following the voters most likely to switch at the general election – those who went Lib Dem in 2010

Following the voters most likely to switch at the general election – those who went Lib Dem in 2010

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Tracking 2010 Lib Dem voters – the ones most likely to move. Chart showing their views of Dave & Ed. twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) December 13, 2012 Today marks the start of a new project on the site – keeping a close eye on those voters most likely to switch at the general election, the 2010 Lib Dems. My intention is to track and highlight relevant polling data for the group because they probably hold the key to the…

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Politicians should be less frightened of the national newspapers given that far fewer people are buying them

Politicians should be less frightened of the national newspapers given that far fewer people are buying them

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The press ain’t wot it used to be. Look at these declining circulation numbers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_n… twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) December 2, 2012 EdM re-takes the lead in YouGov’s leader ratings Cameron slips back in YouGov’s leadership ratings and EdM is back ahead twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) December 2, 2012 Mike Smithson For the latest polling and political betting news Follow @MSmithsonPB

LAB moves to 46 percent – 14 points ahead of the Tories and its best position for nearly a decade

LAB moves to 46 percent – 14 points ahead of the Tories and its best position for nearly a decade

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But all three leaders see ratings improvements New Ipsos-MORI telephone pollhas CON 32 (-1); LAB 46 (+3); LD (nc). So LAB takes a 14% lead — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 15, 2012 The details from the latest MORI poll showing how all 3 leaders have seen marked net increases twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 15, 2012 Unlike cheapie online polls I regard the four phone surveys that we get each month as an event. The one out today is…

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