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BBC News Has Vladimir Putin had his wings clipped? The big world political news overnight has been the dramatic reduction in the vote for Vladimir Putin’s party in the Russian general election. With 75% of the vote counted his United Russia party had just on 50% of the overall vote according to the Central Election Commission. That compares with the final total of 64% four years ago. The news comes amidst a rising number of complaints about election violations, A…

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But he’s still beating Ed & Nick Superimposed on the pictures above are the latest YouGov “doing well/badly” numbers for the three main party leader. Although Dave is still leading on this count his 38% “well” is the lowest it’s been since the general election while the 56% “badly” is the worst. Ed’s 26% “well” equals its lowest but his 59% “badly” is a couple of notches off his worst figure. Clegg’s 22/67 split is quite a few points of…

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Des Moines Register Romney drops to 3rd place – 9 points behind With less than a month to go before the Iowa Caucuses full details have been published of the much awaited survey by Selzer & Co for the Des Moines Register which has a big reputation polling these elections. The fieldwork all took place before yesterday’s withdrawal from the race of the controversial pizza chain boss, Herman Cain, who was in the lead when the paper last carried out…

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Is it so bad that voters want to stick with nurse? There’s a new ICM poll out for the Sunday Telegraph and it shows that the Tories are back into the lead. The figures with changes on the last ICM poll a fortnight ago are: CON 38 (+2): LAB 36 (-2): LD 14 (nc) ICM has the best track record for accuracy of any of the firms and carries out its fieldwork by phone. This is the first published poll…

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Where’s his support likely to go? The big story in the race for the Republican party nomination is an announcement that’s expected shortly from the one time front-runner, the pizza chain boss, Herman Cain, on whether he’s going to quit the race. His bid for the White House has taken a lot of blows in recent weeks and the latest, about a 13 year long affair, might just have pushed him over the edge. But we don’t know – this…

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Would local pay deals produce more public/private equality? The two big domestic events of the last week were the public sector strikes and the Autumn Statement, both of which were about the government’s spending plans. It’s perhaps surprising then that one part of the Chancellor’s speech hasn’t received more attention. What he said was this: “I can also announce that we are asking the independent Pay Review Bodies to consider how public sector pay can be made more responsive to…

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Henry G Manson on Danny A’s Newsnight comments After a public meeting in March Nick Clegg quipped to David Cameron ‘if we keep doing this we won’t find anything to bloody disagree on in the bloody TV debates.’ The comments were picked up on microphone riled some Lib Dems that a fixed-term coalition was now hardening into something more enduring. Of course since then there has been a wide range of issues in which the Lib Dems have sought to…

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