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please please be aware that not all polls are actually polls

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Heathcliffscathy · 22/04/2010 21:47

thanks to gingercat for first raising this, but yougov are absolutely not to be trusted

here

scroll to statement from yougov representative who admit what they have been doing!!!

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policywonk · 23/04/2010 18:59

I saw that article Zeph - makes your blood boil doesn't it?

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Heathcliffscathy · 23/04/2010 16:43

am so glad that yougov story is being diseminated...to be honest i'd be JUST as up in arms if they were doing it to any party...it's NOT POLLING as we know it in this country...unfortunately it seems that it's par for the course in the US...

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Ivykaty44 · 23/04/2010 15:11

No the message is Murdoch doesn't own the Lib dems - so choose carefull who you vote for Murdoch or Lib dems

ZephirineDrouhin · 23/04/2010 15:10

(Sorry that last post was a bit mistitled - is about the likely source of the Lib Dem smears this week)

ZephirineDrouhin · 23/04/2010 15:05

Murdoch and the Tories

TheHeathenOfSuburbia · 23/04/2010 14:49

well, more vote Lib Dem if you like their policies and stuff, but upsetting murdoch is a happy side-effect....

edam · 23/04/2010 14:24

So, the message is, vote Lib Dem to teach Murdoch a lesson?

LeninGrad · 23/04/2010 11:42

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policywonk · 23/04/2010 11:33

Not as bad as it sounds - Labour keeps it pretty quiet for fear of scaring the Daily Mailers

LeninGrad · 23/04/2010 11:28

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policywonk · 23/04/2010 11:25

He's Justine's husband. Makes the tea at paper or other.

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WeNeedToLeaveInFiveMinutes · 23/04/2010 11:22

I hope you mention the //NickCleggsFault, Justine. (Sorry no hash on macbook, usually copy!)

Well worthy of mumsnet.

policywonk · 23/04/2010 11:21

Ian Katz has just Tweeted that he's 'shocked' by the YouGov story

Oh hello Justine Good luck on AQ.

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JustineMumsnet · 23/04/2010 10:53

Please please do our fourth election poll if you haven't already. Am on Any Questions tonight and will no doubt be asked how Mumsnetters think so would love our poll sample to be as representative as possible!
(plus you might win a voucher [desperate])
Thanks

OhYouBadBadKitten · 23/04/2010 10:39

This thread is a real eye opener!

TheHeathenOfSuburbia · 23/04/2010 09:39

X-post with ZD and her faster typing!

TheHeathenOfSuburbia · 23/04/2010 09:38

Ever since the poll saying 49% would vote LD 'if they thought they could win', the right-wing/Murdoch papers have been desperately stomping on every poll result that shows the Lib Dems, er, could win.

For example, did you see this poll? (had to save as image to keep formatting)

Not if you read the Murdoch press...

"Sun journalists said YouGov's extensive daily poll always contained too many findings to publish" Really? It doesn't seem that long... seems a shame to pay for this poll and not publish it. Unless you didn't like the results, of course.

ZephirineDrouhin · 23/04/2010 09:31

More on YouGov

ShadeofViolet · 23/04/2010 09:00

I think Nick Clegg should be a Dr Who baddie, he is made for the part for isnt he

Ivykaty44 · 23/04/2010 08:47

But the poll will not really work, due to not taking into account how many people are living int he consitencey you live in and how they will vote...

OhYouBadBadKitten · 23/04/2010 08:39

Those are pretty shocking!!

Those Lib Dems - truly terrifying

AvadaKedavra · 23/04/2010 08:35

BBC does a good poll on a Sunday - the Poll of Polls, merging them all together. Worth looking out for although the only poll worth bothering about really is the one on 6th May!