The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2

Fair dos, Clegg did do very well and Brown did very ... meh. However whether there's a big impact on the election or not, who knows? We will need to see the viewing figures to get some idea of how influential this has been.

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The ever-glamorous Emily Maitless is helping to dissect it all on Newsnight now.

Originally Posted by Chris

Fair dos, Clegg did do very well and Brown did very ... meh. However whether there's a big impact on the election or not, who knows? We will need to see the viewing figures to get some idea of how influential this has been.

Well Clegg 'won' but Cameron has probably increased his led because of how bad Brown was. I expect to see bumps for both the Tories and Lib Dem.

C - c - c - Clegg!!!

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Sky poll reckons Brown did, though it doesn't make a huge amount of sense. Brown 35%, Clegg 33%, Cameron 32%. Loads of contradicting data elsewhere in the polls so I would hazard a guess it's due to lack of weighting on the poll.

The Sky poll had Cameron at 53% at one point, dunno what's going on there.

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Originally Posted by Chris

C - c - c - Clegg!!!

Gah Sorry corrected it now.

I think the Sky poll was a minute-by-minute rolling moodometer thingy, going up and down as people voted during the debate.

Kinda wish the poll for this week started on Thursday Evening. See if anyone changed.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Damien

Kinda wish the poll for this week started on Thursday Evening. See if anyone changed.

Good idea - maybe kick off week 3 at the end of next week's debate?

Alan Johnson's making a complete arse of himself on Newsnight at the moment, valiantly claiming that Gord 'won' the debate 'on substance'.

Originally Posted by Chris

Alan Johnson's making a complete arse of himself on Newsnight at the moment, valiantly claiming that Gord 'won' the debate 'on substance'.

You know things are bad when they are trying to redefine the nature of winning...

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Good idea - maybe kick off week 3 at the end of next week's debate?

We could try that, but I think if this debate has made any deep, significant changes in people's views, then that will still be evident next Thursday morning. If we switch the poll just in time to catch the end of the next debate we may simply get knee-jerk reactions.

However - we could have a separate thread/poll, open for 24 hours or so, purely for people to indicate what they thought of the debate? Thoughts?

Originally Posted by Chris

However - we could have a separate thread/poll, open for 24 hours or so, purely for people to indicate what they thought of the debate? Thoughts?

I like this, your right that the polls in the aftermath of the debates might skew the results slightly. A debate topic and poll might be a good idea, as long as it doesn't become too confusing.

[Aragorn]

Anyone else notice that Brown started answering the health question with his prepared spin on care of the elderly
Clegg clearly above the others but unfortunately unless we get a hung parliament and a forced change in the voting system, my vote will never be taken into consideration.

Last thought before I nod off. I obviously support the Liberal Democrats and hence will say this; I thought Clegg won the debate. I think Cameron has improved his chances of getting a majority rather than a hung parliament.

I think the best moment was Brown's attempt to cosy up with Clegg and try and get them to team up against Cameron as friends of 'new politics', Clegg brushed this away and slammed Brown for not supporting such reforms before. He also did this to Cameron but it didn't hurt them as much because Cameron avoided presenting himself as a reformer in the way Brown tried to do and the Tories are not in power.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Chris

I think the Sky poll was a minute-by-minute rolling moodometer thingy, going up and down as people voted during the debate.

It has Clegg on 41%, Brown on 32% and Cameron on 27% after 90 minutes.

OK, head on over to this thread to vote on the debate:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/20...bate-itv1.html

Please don't transfer your election discussion to that thread though, it's really only there to allow a poll on the debate to be run.