Comments on: How close is the Lib Dem leadership race? http://www.libdemvoice.org/how-close-is-the-lib-dem-leadership-race-1677.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:38:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Voting member http://www.libdemvoice.org/how-close-is-the-lib-dem-leadership-race-1677.html#comment-34533 Voting member Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:32:04 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/how-close-is-the-lib-dem-leadership-race-1677.html#comment-34533 I got my ballot papers today. In it was a leaflet from Huhne urging me to take up the NEW LIB DEM MANTRA: "Do it like Chris" Can anyone tell me what doing 'the Chris' looks like? Is it a new funky dance? Is it a sexual position? is it a new poster campaign? A new election slogan? Someone from the Huhne camp please enlighten us!! I got my ballot papers today.

In it was a leaflet from Huhne urging me to take up the NEW LIB DEM MANTRA:

“Do it like Chris”

Can anyone tell me what doing ‘the Chris’ looks like?

Is it a new funky dance?
Is it a sexual position?
is it a new poster campaign?
A new election slogan?

Someone from the Huhne camp please enlighten us!!

]]> By: James Graham http://www.libdemvoice.org/how-close-is-the-lib-dem-leadership-race-1677.html#comment-34531 James Graham Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:23:15 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/how-close-is-the-lib-dem-leadership-race-1677.html#comment-34531 We won't "find" that Nick carries half the regions because all the votes will be counted centrally with no regional breakdown. We'll never know. We won’t “find” that Nick carries half the regions because all the votes will be counted centrally with no regional breakdown. We’ll never know.

]]> By: Angus J Huck http://www.libdemvoice.org/how-close-is-the-lib-dem-leadership-race-1677.html#comment-34530 Angus J Huck Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:55:36 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/how-close-is-the-lib-dem-leadership-race-1677.html#comment-34530 Badly conducted opinion polls are an absolute menace. Opinion polls do influence the outcome of elections, so those conducting them really should make every effort to get them right. Every all-member poll the Liberal Democrats and its predecessors have ever conducted has favoured those candidates best known to members. With one exception. And that is 2006, when Chris Huhne leapfrogged the better-known Simon Hughes. I think Chris probably is better-known than Nick, though there may not be much in it. After all, Chris has stood for the leadership before; Nick hasn't. And Chris has the advantage over Nick of having a high profile in the South-East, where there are more members. If Chris wins by a narrow margin, we may find that Nick carries more than half the regions. And Stephen. That 2006 poll got one thing right - the weakness of the Hughes campaign. What it underestimated was Ming's strength among armchair members. Badly conducted opinion polls are an absolute menace. Opinion polls do influence the outcome of elections, so those conducting them really should make every effort to get them right.

Every all-member poll the Liberal Democrats and its predecessors have ever conducted has favoured those candidates best known to members. With one exception. And that is 2006, when Chris Huhne leapfrogged the better-known Simon Hughes.

I think Chris probably is better-known than Nick, though there may not be much in it. After all, Chris has stood for the leadership before; Nick hasn’t.

And Chris has the advantage over Nick of having a high profile in the South-East, where there are more members.

If Chris wins by a narrow margin, we may find that Nick carries more than half the regions.

And Stephen. That 2006 poll got one thing right – the weakness of the Hughes campaign. What it underestimated was Ming’s strength among armchair members.

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