It’s humble pie time for me A couple of days ago I raised the issue of the don’t know adjustments used by Populus and ICM and implied that this might be having a distorting effect on their final polls. In both cases it was their adjustments for the don’t knows which made them more right – a key factor that enabled them to be in first and second position in the polling accuracy league table. They deserve to be congratulated….
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BBC And how will the true-blues view it? What an amazing day and I wonder whether Cameron has done enough to bring in Clegg’s party in some form or another. I also wonder whether Cameron is opening himself up to attack from those within his own party by apparently going so far. Mike Smithson
With talk of dissent within parts of the Tory party over the conduct of their campaign it’s clear that none of the three have survived the election unscathed. There’s almost certainly a disconnect between Clegg’s instincts and many senior figures within his party and Labour’s discomfort with Mr. Brown has erupted on many occasions. Who is under the most pressure and how is that going to impact on the current delicate manoeuvres? Mike Smithson
Bunnco, who has very close links with the Tory party hierarchy, posted this earlier setting out his understanding of what the Cameron team will do? “1 Clegg said that he’s work with the party with the largest mandate. In this case it’s the Tories in terms of seats and votes, where Cameron is 2m votes ahead. 2 But Clegg’s going to want to extract a price in the form of ‘electoral reform’. He certainly doesn’t have the mandate he was…
What are the implications of the inconclusive result?
Who’ll win the battle following the indecisive result?
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