Mark Pack

Telegraph gets its own poll wrong?

By | Fri 23rd March 2007 - 10:49 am

Today’s psephological trivia: The Telegraph reports its own YouGov poll today as showing the Liberal Democrats down one point, but the actual figures on YouGov’s website shows the party’s rating unchanged. Oops.

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6 Comments

  • Antony Hook Antony Hook 23rd Mar '07 - 2:16pm

    1997 Gordon, we doubled our number of seats on 16% of the vote.

  • top of the shot 25th Mar '07 - 10:10am

    Well it makes a change from Lib Dems printing spurrious graphs on focus newsletters claiming it is a two horse race.

  • Graphs, graphs everywhere 25th Mar '07 - 10:23am

    I didn’t realise it was “spurious” to show you’re in first or second place when both the other parties like to tell people “the Lib Dems can’t win here” rather than challenging our policies.

  • Mark Pack 25th Mar '07 - 2:31pm

    Have you seen the bar charts Labour use when they are in third – showing the total number of MPs in Parliament and claiming therefore the race in that constituency is a two horse race? Now *that’s *a spurious graph.

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