The First Leaders' Debate (ITV1)
 

OK, there seems to be some desire for a poll on this specific subject. Please use the multi-choice poll above to indicate who you think performed best in the debate and whether it will cause you to change your vote.

Please try to keep posting to an absolute minimum in this thread, we don't want to confuse and replicate discussion that is ongoing in the official election thread.

Re: The First Leders' Debate (ITV1)
 

Would be easier if you actually included the poll...

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They take a bit of time to set up, he has started the topic and will be attaching the poll now.

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Tut ... how long have you been around here? vB publishes the thread while the poll is still being set up, it always has. ;)

Re: The First Leders' Debate (ITV1)
 

Is this a Leader or Lederhosen thread.:D

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/04/46.jpg

Re: The First Leders' Debate (ITV1)
 

Clegg was the clear winner for. It won't change my voting intention though as I would have voted Lib Dem before the debate as well as after. If I could vote that is...

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Frrrp :p:

Thread title corrected. I'm blaming this shoddy laptop keyboard.

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That was just to irresistible.:D

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I feel your pain, My keyboard has spelling problems as well :dunce:

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It won't change who I'm voting for but I thought Brown performed well, Clegg too, although I thought he could have been better. DC will have to improve in the next two debates.

Overall I was a bit disappointed by the whole set up. I know they had the 70 odd rules to abide by but it just came across as being far too staged.

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Sorry but it was Weight Watchers night-the first I've attended for a year and I was too depressed afterwards to face this particular event.

Well not without some chocolate at least.;)

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I just knew it wouldnt stay to one thread. shame on you Chris :D

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I didn't watch it.

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Don't worry, I'll be closing this one down again in the morning ... ;)

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What do the percentages mean on a multi-choice poll? They don't seem to add up to any mulitple of 100 in any meaningful way?

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I noticed that; without taking my shoes and socks off: if 14 out of 20 people have selected Clegg then that is way above 43%. I'd hazard a guess at it being more than 69% but less than 71%.;)

Re: The First Leaders' Debate (ITV1)
 

At time of writing, 37 people have voted. That makes 1 person worth 2.7%. 17 people have voted for Clegg, which is 45.95% of the total number of voters.

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Still not getting it. I was expecting the top 3 choices to be a separate poll that would add up to a hundred. The didn't watch, etc would be counted in the secondary poll.

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Debates are too managed too sterile for any real substance and i wouldn't alter any vote because of these debates. People are better off reading the manifesto's then watching these if the first one is anything to go by.

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Didn't watch it, waste of time. I played BFBC2 all evening instead. I won't be changing my vote. It'll be a chilly day in hell before I vote Labour and the LibDems have too many stupid little policies they'd bring in for me to vote them.

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I realise that this is a VB 'feature', but that is a really weird way of representing the data.

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The above poll seems to reflect what many other polls have been indicating. This morning on "Breakfast," Rory Cellan-Jones produced a poll of the social networking community's poll-of-polls which showed a moment-by-moment reaction to what was being said. I cannot remember what he poll was call (it was something like "Lyrictax), I don't suppose anyone else knows what it was? It showed that Gordon Brown was keeping up with Nick Clegg for most of the time.

Re: The First Leaders' Debate (ITV1)
 

no doubt Nick Clegg perform very well there

but Brown and Cameron was attacking each other
Clegg was attacking them both

and Brown and Cameron didn't realy bothered much with Clegg

Re: The First Leaders' Debate (ITV1)
 

vB polls aren't sophisticated enough to allow that. You either have a single-vote poll or a multi choice poll. The former allows one selection, the latter allows as many as you like. You can't physically stop someone voting for all the options, all you can do is request how people vote in the poll question text or in the OP.

I will be closing this thread shortly, but we will open a new debate thread next Thursday after the second debate ends.