Posted on August 31st, 2006 by Anthony Wells
There has been some too and froing in the Spectator over the YouGov poll a fortnight ago on the War on Terror. Last week Matthew Parris wrote (alas, subscription only) that he didn’t believe the results and raised some questions over the wording and Allister Heath’s original article (also subscription only). This week Allister hits [...]
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Posted on August 29th, 2006 by Anthony Wells
Lots of media attention over the Taxpayers Alliance’s new poll by ICM over the weekend (the full tables are here, but are 224 pages and 5 MB, so be warned. A shorter presentation is here). As one might expect, the poll concentrated upon taxation but also addressed crime, education and health. For the record most [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2006 by Anthony Wells
The topline voting intention figures in August’s YouGov poll for the Telegraph, with changes from last month’s figures are CON 38%(nc), LAB 31%(-2), LDEM 18%(nc).
The poll supports ICM’s findings earlier in the week in regard of the two main parties – the Conservatives seem steady while Labour seem to have lost support over the [...]
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Filed under: Voting Intention, YouGov
Posted on August 25th, 2006 by Anthony Wells
The Daily Telegraph today reports the first findings from YouGov’s monthly poll for August. In regard of the foiled terrorist plot to blow up airliners, there are no huge surprises. 42% say they are a lot or a little more scared of flying, but the overwhelming majority of people (90%) say it will make no [...]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2006 by Anthony Wells
“It would be interesting to know what has happened to the Labour Muslim vote”, wrote Neal Lawson at the Guardian’s Comment is Free yesterday. Ask and ye shall recieve Neal – the rather surprising answer is that appears to be alive and well.
Accurate polls of British Muslims are actually rather hard to do. For [...]
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Posted on August 21st, 2006 by Anthony Wells
After the long summer drought we finally have a voting intention poll. It’s been almost a month since the last one, during which time we’ve had the ceasefire in Lebanon and, probably more significantly for British domestic politics, the arrests of several suspected terrorists in connection with a plot to blow up airliners over the [...]
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