YouGov have come in for a fair amount of flack online following last night’s instant debate poll for The Sun. Some of the criticism has been wrong or misplaced. Yes, one of their senior figures has Labour roots. But then one has Conservative roots and other staff support the Liberal Democrats. They’ve even done polling
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 23rd Apr 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
Back in January, Nick Clegg took part in an online chat with the readers of Mumsnet. It seems to have paid off, according to today’s Times: The Liberal Democrats have won the Mumsnet vote, according to a poll for the parenthood website. Nick Clegg was supported by 43 per cent of members of the network, compared with
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 1st May 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
Nick Clegg has always said that if no party can command a majority in parliament, he will support the party voters have been seen to support. It was assumed that if the Tories were the biggest party - but a few members short of an outright majority - he would back them. But if the YouGov poll comes true, on a uniform swing Labour will be the largest party and the Liberal Democrats still the third ...
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Spectator on 17th Apr 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
While Liberal Democrat Voice doesn’t do polls, as regular readers know, news reaches us of a new voting intention poll from YouGov which will be reported in tomorrow’s Telegraph. The poll was carried out at the end of this week. Here are the headline figures compared with the last YouGov poll: LD: 20% (+4) Con: 44% (-2) Lab: 24%
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 19th Sep 2008 (via libdemvoice.org)
Support for Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats has fallen significantly in a poll which puts the Conservatives in sight of victory in Thursday's general election.
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Telegraph on 1st May 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Nick Clegg has been giving a speech at the think-tank Demos today, setting out his vision for what this Parliament should achieve – and what the Liberal Democrats should get from it. The heart of the argument is in this early section: Now that the Liberal Democrats are in government, liberal ideas are being deployed
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 16th Jul 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has been accused of hypocrisy for allowing the Liberal Democrats to take hundreds of thousands in donations from companies which pay only a small amount of tax in the UK.
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Telegraph on 8th Apr 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
A new poll has dramatically propelled the Liberal Democrats into second place in the election campaign. The poll by ITV/ComRes put Lib Dem support at 35pc, Tories on 36pc and Labout on 27pc.
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Telegraph on 16th Apr 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
An interesting snippet from today’s Sunday Times reporting the latest YouGov tracker poll conducted on Friday and Saturday among nearly 1,500 voters showed that “Nick Clegg narrowly won the debate overall”. You won’t find the figures in the paper’s report (and I can’t find them on the YouGov site) but the Times’s Samuel Coates reports
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 2nd May 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
Nick Clegg faces embarrassment after two more of his party's prominent backers denounced his leadership and said they no longer support the Liberal Democrats.
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Telegraph on 19th Dec 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)