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• Burlington County GOP outspent Democrats in general election races

  
  myBCTnow.com — Authority: 158
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  4 hours ago

• Should Mr. Brown look back over the C&N numbers?

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 141
  By-elections.co.uk CON 20,539 votes (14,162) LAB 12,679 votes (21,240) LD 6,040 votes (8,083) The contest, held on 22 May 2008, was the first seat gained by the Tories in a by election since June 1982. The turnout was just 1.8% down on what it had been at the general election. Mike Smithson
  6 hours ago

• Labour has given up governing and now just wants a class war

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Gordon Brown is picking a fight with the Tories that will damage Britain, says Benedict Brogan.
  7 hours ago

• Will attacking Etonians win or lose votes?

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 141
  Could Brown’s toff-bashing quip turn-off middle England? John Rentoul makes a good point about one aspect of Brown’s PMQ’s performance on his Independent blog :- “…..there was one line that was too good to use. Brown invoked the name of Zac Goldsmith, the dormantly non-dom Conservative candidate, and ...
  10 hours ago

• Welcome to the new confident Gordon

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 415
  But is there a danger when’s he’s over-confident? Anybody watching PMQs today would have seen an emboldened and confident Gordon Brown dealing with a slightly down-beat David Cameron. Probably Brown was the winner though his continued evasiveness and what turned out to be a wrong assertion on Spain’s G20 ...
  13 hours ago

• Does Electoral Competition Cause Post-Election Intimidation and Violence? Evidence from the March 29, 2008 Zimbabwean General Election

  
  This is Zimbabwe — Authority: 513
  A Paper Presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Association  of Third World Studies, Cape Coast, Ghana, November 21-24, 2009 Author: John Hickman Introduction Are post-election intimidation and violence attributable to intense electoral competition? This paper presents answers to that question based ...
  15 hours ago

• Could a climate change split undermine Tory chances?

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 415
  How dangerous is the issue for the Tories? Only days before the Copenhagen climate summit Andrew Grice in the Independent is reporting what’s said to be growing split between many parts of the Tory party and its leadership on the issue. It will be recalled that just four years ago one of Cameron’s first acts ...
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• Is this the man to take over from Gord?

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 141
  Could he become Labour’s William Hague? One of the problems of Mr. Brown’s style of government is that he makes most of the big announcements and his top team get very little public exposure. So if there’s something big to say about health then it’s not the Secretary of State responsible who gets the ...
  1 day ago

• An Election Message from Salma Yaqoob

  
  Birmingham Respect — Authority: 112
  Salma Yaqoob  The General Election is a matter of months away. Once again, this is an election in which only two parties are competing to form a government – Labour or the Tories.   A series of opinion polls have pointed strongly to the defeat of the Labour government. The outcome, however, is not a foregone ...
  1 day ago

• Gordon Brown should remember what happened to Stanley Baldwin

  
  Politics: Politics blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 119
  The career of Stanley Baldwin, and his response to the hung parliament of 1923, should offer the prime minister some particularly relevant food for thought Politics watchers are increasingly asking themselves, as he himself surely does too, what Gordon Brown would do if he woke up on the day after the next general ...
  1 day ago

• Who is going to win the 2010 polling race?

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 141
  Now you can bet on the most accurate final poll? Aside from the party HQs the most tense places to be on election night will be at the six polling firms which carry out monthly surveys of political opinion in Britain. How close were they with their final poll? For they all know only too well that this will be the ...
  1 day ago

• The election campaign will start after Christmas - when the voters will start paying attention

  
  Man in a Shed — Authority: 131
  There have been some wild polls and wild events over the last few months. But I have a feeling that the none political public ( aka the voters ) will discount almost everything before 1Jan10 as background noise. The real election campaign needs to start then. It may seem tempting to wheel out popular policies and ...
  1 day ago

• 2008 Candidate Financial Returns: Latest Data

  
  Pundits' Guide — Authority: 417
  Ive just finished making a pass-through, updating the database with the latest version of each candidates 2008 financial return information from Elections Canada. Both the Bloc Québécois and Conservatives are substantially through the review process, while the Liberals, Greens and NDP returns are taking longer for ...
  1 day ago

• Could UKIP switchers cost Dave his majority?

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 141
  But will it be the same in the marginals? Just looking at the detailed data for the latest ComRes poll and we see the dynamic that is causing the Tory totals to fall and is putting into question what seemed to be the forgone conclusion of a Tory majority. For helpfully the firm is the only one of the pollsters ...
  1 day ago

• Retesting the wisdom of crowds

  
  Nick Anstead — Authority: 121
  A couple of years ago, I undertook a quick experiment , focused around the Iowa caucus of 2008. Using data from the Washington Post’s The Fix blog , I compared the best estimates produced by of political experts, opinion poll information and an average of the guesses of random punters on the blog’s comment ...
  2 days ago

• Congratulations to John Cook

  
  Andreas' Blog... — Authority: 104
  Just a quick post to say congratulations to John Cook , our new candidate for Norwich North. Ive met John and his lovely wife on several occasions and would have to say that he really is a geninely nice bloke. Ill also say that despite nitpicking by some Tories , he is a genuniely local candidate with solid roots ...
  2 days ago

• Copeland BNP Announces its Prospective Parliamentary Candidate

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 611
  The British National Party’s North West regional organiser, Clive Jefferson, has been nominated as the party’s parliamentary candidate in its key Cumbria target seat of Copeland. The announcement was made in a press release issued by the BNP in Cumbria. “The first-ever entrance of the BNP in a general election ...
  2 days ago

• Will day-time counts mean we have to rely more on this?

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 141
  Is the wise strategy not to bet on exit polls? If there is a huge increase in the number of day-time counts, as many are predicting, then the general election exit poll is going to become even more important. For its projections will be what will dominate perceptions of the election for several hours and maybe into ...
  2 days ago

• Scottish independence? The SNP have an app for that

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Nationalist party to use iPhone application allowing detailed map of voter intentions to be produced in election campaigning It is one of the most popular gadgets of the noughties, checking bus times and even playing a virtual trombone – and now the iPhone could also help break up Britain, the Scottish National ...
  2 days ago

• Remember this poll - exactly a year ago today?

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 415
  CON 37 LAB 36 LD 17 ComRes: Nov 30 2008 UKPollingReport Whatever happened to Brown’s Bank Bailout Bounce? On November 30 2008, precisely a year ago today, ComRes finished their monthly poll for the Independent which had Labour just one point behind - figures which suggested that Mr. Brown was ...
  2 days ago

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