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Post by The Bishop on Dec 17, 2012 23:25:33 GMT
Their first since October - worth the wait?? Lab 40 Con 29 (-6  ) LibDem 11 (+2) UKIP 10 (+5) Tories must be a bit worried now....... |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Dec 18, 2012 14:43:57 GMT
Not so sure about that. Cameron was supposed to be giving a big speech on Europe before Christmas, but unless I missed it that's been postponed - perhaps because Boris deliberately got there first?
In any case, the Conservative leadership seems to be supremely unworried about bad polling. One wonders whether this will change as the election gets closer, or whether they just don't believe their position is as poor as the polls say.
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Post by The Bishop on Dec 18, 2012 15:06:40 GMT
Said speech has been promised for mid-January........
About the Tories not being worried by the polls, not so sure. I think quite a lot of it is bravado - especially now that real votes have backed the figures up.
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Post by Andrew_S on Mar 14, 2013 17:39:14 GMT
Anyone know what's going on with Times/Populus polls? Do they just do one every few months now?
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 14, 2013 18:18:11 GMT
Populus just seem to do polling for Lord Ashcroft these days - maybe somebody might ask one of the Times political staff on Twitter what has happened to their surveys??  |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Mar 14, 2013 20:59:30 GMT
It's almost like the Times lost interest when they stopped being able to report favourable polls for the Conservatives.
But of course, that would only be true if they were absolute hacks.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2013 21:07:55 GMT
confirmation that the Times have stopped this
Mike Smithson @msmithsonpb
Sadly, I'm told, there'll be no more Populus phone polls in the Times. A big mistake by the new editor.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2013 21:16:28 GMT
I never had Populus down as the most accurate polling organisation, but it is rather sad.
You never can tell when this sort of thing will happen. The Daily Telegraph stopped using Gallup in 2001 - the original pollsters - who then ceased to poll on voting intention in the UK after 60 years of doing so (although they had tended to overestimate Labour's position from 1987 onwards).
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Post by Andrew_S on Mar 25, 2013 21:35:33 GMT
Whatever happened to the likes of Harris, Gallup and NOP?
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Post by alexander143 on Apr 19, 2013 8:11:32 GMT
I guess what The Daily Telegraph did a decade ago still remains justified for so many reasons..anyone to argue that?
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Post by No Offence Alan on Sept 29, 2014 17:30:33 GMT
Bugger!
I had a missed call on my mobile on Saturday, and I didn't recognise the number.
I phoned back (it was an 0345 number) on my landline tonight and it turns out it was Populus!.
There goes my chance to boost the LDs' polling figures.
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Post by David Ashforth on Apr 23, 2015 17:47:52 GMT
Populus have just phoned me.
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