Posted on July 9th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
Today’s Telegraph has the first poll since the London bombings, the opportunity we have to actually gauge people’s reaction to Thursday’s terror. The public response to terrorist atrocities is unpredictable – following 9/11 the American people rallied round President Bush – his approval ratings went from 51% a week before, to 90% a week afterwards [...]
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Filed under: Terrorism, YouGov
Posted on July 6th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
Unlike Live Aid, which aimed to actually raise money for Africa, the proported purpose of the Live 8 concerts at the weekend was to raise the profile of African poverty, force the issue onto the agenda at the G8 summit and thereby to pressure the G8 countries to take action. Last weekend’s newspapers gave the [...]
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Filed under: YouGov
Posted on July 4th, 2005 by Anthony Wells
The latest YouGov poll shows support for ID cards falling even further. Back in 2003, when YouGov asked an identically worded question they found 78% of people supported “the introduction of a system of national identity cards in Britain”. Polls by various companies during 2004 found support around the 70-80% level, although lower levels of [...]
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Filed under: ID cards, Voting Intention, YouGov
Posted on July 1st, 2005 by Anthony Wells
“If I were a rich man, daidle deedle daidle…” Even as someone who runs a website on opinion polls, I doubt if I had £750,000 burning a hole in my pocket I would blow the lot on commissioning opinion polls. Still, much to my delight Lord Ashcroft has done just that and the mass of [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, Populus, YouGov
