I have a particular loathing for arguments that involve the words "at this stage in the cycle". It implies that public support automatically moves in certain directions depending upon how distant or close an election appears, as opposed to people changing their opinions in response to events. The
The full tables for the Sunday Times YouGov poll are available here and, as usual, there are questions on a wide and wonderful variety of things. Firstly on bank bailouts and bonuses, 62% of respondents thought that rescuing the banks will cost taxpayers in the long run, while 25% thought
As well as the normal YouGov poll in the Sunday Times, there was also a YouGov poll of Scotland in their Scottish edition. These figures are all acquired on the grapevine, so don't take them as gospel until the tables crop up on Monday! Scottish Parliament constituency voting
YouGov's monthly poll for the Sunday Times has topline figures, with changes from YouGov's last poll, of CON 41% (nc), LAB 31% (nc), LDEM 17% (+2). Quite clearly there is nothing major here, with the two main parties static and the only change being a small
There's a fun little question over on PoliticsHome I haven't seen before. They've asked each party's voters how enthusiastic they are about their choice. Conservative voters are by far the most enthusiastic, 47% say they are very enthusiastic about their choice, with
Of course he isn't. I don't normally sink to mentioning PR puff polls, but since reputable sources like Sky and the Guardian haven't have the good sense not to I suppose I'd better. Here's the way PR polls work. You
Populus's monthly poll for the Times has topline figures, with changes from last month, of CON 42%(nc), LAB 30%(+2), LDEM 19%(+1). The last couple of polls have shown Labour staging a slight recovery. This particular poll took place after Gordon Brown's visit to
Last month I was dismissive of the way the Telegraph had interpreted a YouGov poll as showing that immigration was the public's number one issue, when actually YouGov had only asked about a limited number of specific policies, that didn't include things like health or the
Bizarre news story in the Sunday Telegraph. Patrick Hennessey writes about a "secret poll" of Labour activists, commissioned by Compass. He continues "So sensitive was its timing, amid claims that the contest to choose the party's next leader is already under way, that its very
The BBC have commissioned that rare creature, a Welsh opinion poll. On the downside, since it was commissioned by the BBC, there are no voting intention figures. Full tables of the ICM poll are here Asked about how they would prefer Wales to be governed, 13% supported a completely independent
ComRes's monthly poll for the Independent has topline figures, with changes from their last poll, of CON 44%(+3), LAB 28%(+3), LDEM 17%(-5). The poll was conducted between February 27th and March 1st. The previous ComRes poll had showed a sudden and inexplicable leap in Lib
Following on from their teaser last month, Theos have released a much larger poll on the subject of evolution and religion carried out by ComRes. The full report is available here, hopefully the full tables will follow soon. I'll come onto the evolution questions in the later post,
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