Regards

I find the comments and analysis most helpful and informative.

I am interested in the debate on variation in poll results, particularly as I on the Yougov panel. My wife and I are 100% likely to vote as we sent off our postal ballot forms more than a week ago. I always felt that Yougov would naturally have a bias to the Conservatives for several reasons, such as
- more likelihood of broadband internet users being better off
- people who ore older and/or have a more flexible lifestyle (Non executive positions, semi-retired etc.) are more likely to be willing to spend the time responding to an on-line survey
- the political leanings of people who are more willing to do boring things like filling in voting intention surveys are more likely to be Conservative than those who are not. I apologise if that sounds very pejorative, but I find it difficult to explain clearly.

These and other reasons give an unrepresentative Conservative bias, which however is then counteracted by a significantly higher propensity to vote by Yougov contributors.

Adding these two variations together means that Yougov end up near the bullseye. It also means though that if they get one of the countervailing forces seriously wrong they won’t even hit the double ring!

Does this make sense, or am I talking rubbish?

Found the reason now: if the text looked horrible it’s because you haven’t got ClearType switched on in Windows. In IE7 it’s on automatically, Firefox & IE6 I assume just take the Windows setting.

Go to Display Properties. Click the appearance tab, the effects button and where it asks how to smooth the edges of screen fonts choose ClearType instead of Standard. The seats guides, where I’ve still got Candara as the font, will now look nice

I still like it, so as more people get IE7 or Vista I’ll switch back the blog too.