politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Could the pollsters be understating the Tory margin? The Independent's pollster, ComRes, have made available overnight the full data from their Crewe & Nantwich poll which is in this morning’s paper and is showing a Conservative lead of 13%. Reproduced above is a table showing responses on the turnout question the certainty of voting rated on [...]
The Exile (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
The opinion polls, whether they are from the Guardian or the Independent , are showing that Nu-Labour is about as unpopular as it can get and meltdown seems to be on the horizon. Peter Hain MP has argued that the only road to salvation lies in appealing to both the working class and what he calls the "aspirational voters". On one level he is quite correct, but Nu-Labour has now got to the stage where...
ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidat (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
ICM put the Tories 8% ahead in its poll for Sunday's News of the World. A poll by ComRes for today's Independent puts the Tories 13% ahead. The Conservatives are on 48% and Labour are on 35%. The poll confirms...
Dave's Part (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
New Labour has been trying to play the class politics card in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election. The tactic seems to have backfired, big time. Is that because – as some commentators have suggested – such themes are inappropriate...
