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Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2
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Originally Posted by torygraph
General Election 2010: Liberal Democrats surge after Nick Clegg's TV debate performance
The Liberal Democrats have enjoyed an sharp increase in support among viewers who watched last night’s general election debate. A new poll of the voting intentions of a group of 4,000 people who watched the programme saw Nick Clegg's party overtake Labour.
The poll by ITV/ComRes put Liberal Democrat support at 35 per cent. The Conservatives were at 36 per cent, Labour was at 24 per cent and others 5 per cent.
An average of 9.4 million viewers watched last night's debate between Mr Clegg, Gordon Brown and David Cameron.
However because of the demographics of the television audience, when the poll results were weighted to include the entire electorate, the Liberal Democrats' share of the vote slipped back to 24 per cent.
These weighted results put the Conservatives on 35 per cent and Labour on 28 per cent, a seven-point lead.
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This is not unlike the poll here, which now has LibDems and Tories tied, compared to 36% for the Tories and 18% for the LibDems in the last poll.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...rformance.html
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