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• Is Jackie right? Labour could be reduced to 120 seats?

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 138
  “ ….Some Labour people may think I’m sounding too gloomy, but those who have been privy to recent private polling are a lot more than gloomy. This suggests that Labour could return to the Commons with just 120 MPs or thereabouts, taking the party back to 1930s territory.. .” Jackie Ashley’s Guardian ...
  9 hours ago

• Asylum Seeker Polling – Three Pollsters

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 540
  Today we have some results on the public perception of asylum seeker policy issues from both Newspoll and Nielsen. When combined with last week’s Essential Report questions on the same issue, all three pollsters turn out to be pretty consistent with each other, only differing by amounts we’d expect from slightly ...
  15 hours ago

• The Kids Are Alright: Some Thoughts About Same-Sex Marriage

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  The following, hard as it might be to believe, is a true story. The setting: Driving in the family car to a lavish lunch at the local Carls Jr. drive-thru. Saturday afternoon, November 1st. 2008. My four year-old daughter is absorbed by a Disney cartoon on her seatback DVD player, while my seven year-old son ...
  16 hours ago

• Is this what happens when the world thinks you are a loser?

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 138
  Would his plan have gone through if his ratings were better? The key impact that opinion polls have is not in predicting the general election but in setting the whole back-cloth for the way current politics is conducted. So is this how we should explain the lack of support for Mr. Brown’s tax plan from other ...
  1 day ago

• New Pollytrend Metric – Phone Pollster Trend

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 540
  We all know about our Pollytrend chart – where we build a rolling average of the most recent poll from each pollster weighted by sample size, then run an aggressive locally weighted polynomial regression through the results to give us an adaptive trend line. While Pollytrend is good for picking up medium term shifts ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Americans oppose Obamas health care proposals

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 603
  According to a new CNN poll, Americans oppose President Barack Obama’s health care proposals and believe Congress should keep working reform: Nearly six in ten Americans want Congress to continue working on health care reform bills that have been passed through various committees, according to a new national ...
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• Moderate turnout in Uttar Pradesh by-polls (Second Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Lucknow, Nov 7 (IANS) An average of 49.37 percent voting was recorded in by-elections to 11 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh Saturday while the turnout in Firozabad parliamentary seat was over 50 percent, officials said.In Firozabad, where actor Raj Babbar of the Congress is pitted against Dimple Yadav, the ...
  2 days ago

• Chhattisgarh records 50-55 percent voting (Second Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Raipur, Nov 7 (IANS) An estimated 50-55 percent of the over 200,000 electorate exercised their franchise in Chhattisgarh’s Vaishali Nagar assembly seat by-poll Saturday, officials said.Election officials said that voting was peaceful at most of the 221 polling booths.“Voting was largely peaceful except for a few ...
  2 days ago

• Heavy turnout in Firozabad constituency (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Lucknow, Nov 7 (IANS) Tens of thousands voted across Uttar Pradesh Saturday in 11 assembly and one Lok Sabha by-elections, with actor Raj Babbar of the Congress pitted against the daughter in law of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in the Firozabad parliamentary seat.By noon, 27 percent voters had exercise ...
  2 days ago

• Brisk, peaceful voting in Chhattisgarh (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Raipur, Nov 7 (IANS) Thousands voted Saturday in the Vaishali Nagar assembly constituency in Chhattisgarh, with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hoping to retain the seat despite a strong Congress challenge.Up to 30 percent of about 211,000 voters had exercised their franchise by noon, an official said.Women ...
  2 days ago

• 12 percent polling in Rajasthan (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Jaipur, Nov 7 (IANS) Brisk polling was reported Saturday in Rajasthan’s two assembly constituencies of Todabhim and Salumber where the main battle is between the ruling Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).Long queues were seen at polling stations. The state election department said over 12 percent voted in ...
  2 days ago

• Lawrence Solomon: Numbers racket

  
  FP Comment — Authority: 606
  Politicians the world over claim that 4,000 scientists believe in global warming. Depends on who’s counting  By Lawrence Solomon I n a speech yesterday, Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd explained why he is so certain that the science is settled on climate change. It stems from the number 4,000 ...
  2 days ago

• Fridays football picks (and other stuff)

  
  Fundamentals and Falsehoods — Authority: 123
  First, the other stuff... FORT HOOD SHOOTING UPDATE: It sure appears that what we have here is yet another shooting done by a Muslim extremist: "Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" ...
  2 days ago

• I’m Baaaaack! Miss Me? Happy Friday

  
  Page One — Authority: 548
  Just a little bit of a round-up to get the afternoon started… Polling was hit and miss on 2009 elections. What’s that mean for polling in Kentucky? [ HuffPo ] Some Republicans just can’t deal with reality when it comes to wars and health care. Here’s proof from the U.S. Congress. [ More HuffPo ] ...
  2 days ago

• CNN/Opinion Research Poll – October 30-November 1, 2009 – Health Care

  
  CNN Political Ticker — Authority: 849
  TOPICS: Health care Full results (pdf)
  3 days ago

• Morgan Adds Outlier Weight to Newspoll

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 540
  Morgan has cheekily come in a week early , giving us the first week of what is usually a two week Face to Face poll with the primaries running 51 (down 1) /32.5 (down 2) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 61/39 the same way – a half a point increase to Labor. The Greens are on 9.5 ...
  3 days ago

• YouGov now have a 14 point Tory lead

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 138
  CON 41%(nc) LAB 27%(-1) LD 17%(+1) And 73% want the troops out of Afghanistan A new 1,021 sample YouGov poll for Channel 4 where the fieldwork took place yesterday and today has a slightly increased Tory lead the result of Labour slipping a notch to 27% and the Lib Dems increasing by one point. The total ...
  3 days ago

• The Base

  
  FamilyFoundationBlog.com — Authority: 135
  In his thumping of Creigh Deeds Tuesday night, Bob McDonnell nearly garnered as many votes as… Marriage. Yup, that’s right.  McDonnell’s 1,160,365 votes (as of this posting) fell just 168,181 short of the 2006 marriage amendment.  That proposal received 1,328,537 supporters.  Talk about a “bipartisan,” ...
  3 days ago

• What’s the next set of polls going to show?

  
  politicalbetting.com — Authority: 138
  Will the Lisbon compromise mean the Tories are up or down? It’s welcome back to PB’s cartoonist, Marf, with a new drawing this afternoon neatly linking linking the Tory polling position with all the publicity about the plinth in Trafalgar Square. For the next round of surveys, including the latest exclusive poll ...
  3 days ago

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