Waiting for a poll
Tonight we should - finally - be getting a regular voting intention poll. It seems like a very long time since the last two polls, which rather unhelpfully showed an 11 point Tory lead and a 1 point Tory lead.
Populus's regular poll for the Times should be published on their website tonight at around 8 or so (I'll be stuck in a meeting, so won't be posting on it until slightly later, but feel free to discuss it in the comments here) and we may yet have more polls to come.
As we approach the Christmas period sampling for polls starts getting a bit dubious - half the population spend their weekends away from their telephones and commuters waiting in a single big traffic jam near Bluewater (at least, it feels that way) and the closer we get to the actual Chistmas period the more likely people are to be visiting relatives. For that reason it's likely the pollsters won't stick to their normal timetables and we'll also see some of the pollsters who would normally do their fieldwork later in the month bring their polls forward.
