A sudden outbreak of voodoo polling this morning, or more to the point a sudden outbreak of serious newspapers reporting a voodoo poll as being meaningful. What's a voodoo poll? It's what Bob Worcester calls the little "press the red button to vote" polls
There is a new Ipsos MORI poll on attitudes towards cannabis here. The answers appear somewhat contradictory - asked how cannabis should be classified the most popular response was that it should be a class A drug, supported by 32% of respondents. 26% thought it should be class B, 18%
A new ICM poll for the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust suggests 50% of people now think ID cards would be a bad idea, with 47% thinking them a good idea. The wording in the question was the same as used in the series of polls done for No2ID by ICM,
Various people in my comments have asked if there is any polling about attitudes toward Sharia law. Well, I don't know of any polls of the general population - I suspect that it would be overwhelmingly, uniformly hostile. ICM did, howeer, ask the opinion of British Muslims back
Populus's monthly poll for the Times has topline voting intentions, with changes from their last poll, of CON 40%(+3), LAB 31% (-2), LD 17% (-2). The poll was conducted between the 1st and 3rd of February. Personally speaking the figures are a bit of a surprise, polls
A new poll by ICM in the Sunday Telegraph has topline voting intention figures (with changes from their previous poll) of CON 37%(nc), LAB 32%(-3), LDEM 21%(+1). The poll was conducted between the 30th and 31st January. Since ICM last did a poll we've seen
Just had this sent to me as I was packing up to go home, so don't have time to post on it properly...but it's a surprising news so I didn't want to wait till tonight. MORI's monthly political monitor shows Labour
ComRes have released their monthly poll for the Independent. The full tables are here. The topline figures, with changes from ComRes's December poll are CON 38%(-3), LAB 30%(nc), LDEM 17%(+1). The pattern here is in line with the recent YouGov and ICM polls - the
Monday's Telegraph published the economic part of their monthly YouGov poll (it also had the best Prime Minister question, which gave David Cameron a 4 point lead over Brown). Reports of economic questions in polls are always a bit lacking. They inevitably show that everyone thinks we are
Polls by ICM and YouGov both show the Conservatives falling slightly and a boost for the Lib Dems under their new leader. YouGov in the Telegraph has topline figures of CON 41%(-2), LAB 33%(nc), LDEM 16%(+2), ICM for the Guardian have figures of CON 37%(-3), LAB
A new YouGov poll for ITV London has topline voting intentions for the London mayoral election of Livingstone 44%(-1), Johnson 40%(-4), Paddick 8%(+1). I can't find the exact dates of the poll yet, but press reports suggest it was conducted after the Channel 4 Dispatches
I have added a page listing polls on support for Scottish independence here (and linked from the sidebar). It's a question that produces some wildly differing responses, allowing people to argue that the polls show almost anything they want. It tends to be asked about in at least
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