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…
Could his call be counter-productive? The Indy’s front page features a plea from Baron Adonis, a former Liberal Democrat councillor in Oxford and ex-PPC, to supporters of the party he defected from to support Labour on May 6th in order to stop the Tories. His first target of supporters of his former party in Labour-Tory marginals because, “a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote which helps the Tories against progressive policies.” That’s fairly standard rhetoric and is central…
Harris – Metro Apr 8 Mar 29 CONSERVATIVES 37% 37% LABOUR 28% 27% LIB DEMS 19% 19% LAB to CON swing from 2005 6% 6.5% This week’s poll from Harris Interactive is published in the Metro this morning – although fieldwork finished on Tuesday – the day the election was called. So the poll, in the context of the current battle, is quite old and it is odd that it should have taken so long for the fieldwork to have…
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: Well that was rubbish. We were trying to load-balance between the servers using perlbal. And perlbal performed so badly the load-balancer itself was unreachable. I’m going to try using nginx for load-balancing now. Hopefully there won’t be too many ill effects. If anyone has any experience implementing software load balancing on Linux, please email me: rcs1000 at g mail dot com Populus Apr 7 (Feb 7) CON 2010 LAB 2010 LD 2010 Voted CON in 2005 90%…
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…