The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4

Originally Posted by Chris

He's worth keeping an eye on if only for the fact that he's actually trying to model his way past the bizarre and nonsensical 'uniform swing' projections that are still the obsession of every major national news outlet in the UK, even though they have been discredited time and time again.?

I wondered that. When the polls are translated to seats on the basis of a uniform swing I wonder how do they know which seats are safe? Do they base it on a swing from the popular vote from the previous election and just impost it nationwide?

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

Good heads up, punky - could an admin please anonymise the numbers, please.

Too late. Your going to prison!

Originally Posted by Damien

I wondered that. When the polls are translated to seats on the basis of a uniform swing I wonder how do they know which seats are safe? Do they base it on a swing from the popular vote from the previous election and just impost it nationwide?

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Too late. Your going to prison!

Grease me up, it's going to be a long night.......

The Sun has suppressed yet another poll:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...ll-brown-bigot

[Derek]

Originally Posted by punky

Anyway, those figures don't sound right. Sure its small sample, but how can Labour have nearly 10x everyone else's - especially as its no exactly Labour heartland.

Not that I'm suggesting for a second that postal votes might not be 100% secure...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...tal-votes.html

Labour activists had 'vote-rigging factory' to hijack postal votes

http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehou...al-fraud.thtml

“Postal voting on demand is lethal to the democratic process. Wholesale electoral fraud is both easy and profitable.”

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by foreverwar

Good heads up, punky - could an admin please anonymise the numbers, please.

Done.

Originally Posted by Damien

Too late. Your going to prison!

I believe Derek is already on his way to pick up foreverwar...

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Originally Posted by Damien

The Sun has suppressed yet another poll:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...ll-brown-bigot

Surely not!

[Arthurgray50@blu]

It was a properly designed Tory ploy, and it worked.

[nomadking]

The question asked in the poll doesn't distinguish how badly or not they thought of him beforehand. It also doesn't establish whether the people being asked knew the full details of what was said.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

It was a properly designed Tory ploy, and it worked.

Your talking bull crap

Opening statements ... Gord is tripping over his own tongue, shouting, talking too fast. Basically he's panicking!

And in the following 10 minutes all he has to say is 'David's got it wrong, David's got it wrong.' Labour clearly now has nothing at all to say about the merits of its own policies. All it has left is desperate moves to scare people out of voting Tory.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Chris

Opening statements ... Gord is tripping over his own tongue, shouting, talking too fast. Basically he's panicking!

And in the following 10 minutes all he has to say is 'David's got it wrong, David's got it wrong.' Labour clearly now has nothing at all to say about the merits of its own policies. All it has left is desperate moves to scare people out of voting Tory.

He keeps trying to scare people and he's failing. Brown is finished

Cameron smackdown on Brown: "You heard it yourself - if you earn more than £20,000, Gordon considers you to be rich."

OUCH!

[Charlie_Bubble]

Nick Clegg (For the 3rd or 4th time) "There they go again!"

No Nick, there you go again trying to score the same point over and over and over and over..... He's a like a retarded parrot.

[punky]

I like Dave slipping in there about Gordo's fictious defence budget figures.

... however, for my money, Clegg is still doing the best job of rising above it. He's giving a very good account of himself at the moment.

i don't think either Cameron or Brown are doing themselves any favours at all keep having digs at each other ,Clegg seems to be the only one answering the questions with any sort of meaning