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Web Banking Nets Million More Women!
The popularity of internet banking is growing more rapidly among women than men, according to the latest quarterly survey by Nationwide.
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Postal And Tactical Voting
I apologise for neglecting my duties yesterday, between the BBC and ITN, with an interview with Fox News sandwiched in, I failed to file Worcester -3, so that Worcester -2 will double up on postal voting, my intended subject for -3, and tactical voting, planned for today.
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General Election 2001 - Or Might You Change Your Mind?
A brief observation from the data in our latest poll, published in the Sunday Telegraph at the weekend and based on telephone interviews conducted on 31 May-2 June (Thursday-Saturday).
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General Election 2001 : After Hague
If the Conservatives do lose Thursday's election as comprehensively as the polls are continuing to indicate, the obvious question of William Hague's future as leader will not be able to be long postponed.
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Polls Apart!
Never did I ever think I'd write the most trite poll story headline, but I'm tempted tonight, writing on the eve on the publication of three opinion polls in the Sunday newspapers: MORI in the Sunday Telegraph with 1,010 interviews nationwide conducted over the last couple of days, NOP in the Sunday Times with 1,000+ interviews, and ICM in the Observer also with just over 1,000, all done over the telephone.
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Earthquake In The Polls
Wow! Mild earthquake in the election polls. ICM has now brought this election to life in a poll for Channel 4, which I missed last night on the TV, being out to dinner with my family.
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Labour's Nightmare Scenario
Labour's nightmare may be coming to haunt them the night of the 7th of June. In our survey for the Times a week ago (22nd May), there was just a few points difference between the Conservatives' 'certainty of voting', at 65%, and Labour's at 61%. That four-point gap is widening in our latest survey at the same time that the Labour share is reducing.
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General Election 2001 : The Most Boring Election?
This has been the most boring election in living memory, with fewer of the public than ever taking any interest in it … right? Wrong, oddly enough.
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The British — Poll Convergence
Three of the "Big 4" pollsters have now pronounced for this week, and they have converged. All are near to the 50% Labour, 30% Conservative, 14% Liberal Democrat share of the vote that has been the result of nearly every poll conducted since 1st November last year. For the past six months, the state of the parties has been described as 'flat lining'. So it is today.
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General Election 2001 : Manifestly "A Waste Of Time"
The public is considerable less interested in the parties' election manifestos at this election than in 1997, figures from a previously unpublished MORI survey conducted just over a week ago, reveal.