Sunday, February 5, 2012

Panelbase poll : independence trails by just six points

Thanks once again to Marcia for alerting me to the latest highly encouraging poll on voting intentions for the independence referendum, which shows the No side in a slender six-point lead...

Yes 47%
No 53%


The poll also confirms the SNP's current commanding position in respect of Holyrood voting intentions - the party leads Labour by 50% to 29%. For a point of reference, a survey by the same company just a month before the SNP landslide last spring had the nationalists at 37%, tied with Labour on the constituency vote.

As we know, Nick Clegg is an expert in "extremism", so perhaps he'll want to reflect at some leisure on which two party leaders find themselves on the respective extremes of popularity and unpopularity in this poll.

I'll give you three guesses.

* * *

I suggested two or three weeks ago that the broadcasters would need to urgently rethink their whole approach in the run-up to the independence referendum. Well, if the Alex Salmond/Calcutta Cup incident is anything to go by, it appears they've done just that - and come to the intriguing conclusion that there are simply far too many pro-independence voices on TV.

The mind boggles. Try again, chaps.

1 comment:

  1. Lifted from a comment elsewhere.

    1) iNDEPENDENCE YES 47 NO 53
    2) INDEPENDENCE 37, DEVO MAX 30, NO CHANGE 33
    3) SNP AT 50% ! CONSTITUENCY 48 REGIONAL
    4) LABOUR 29% BOTH Q
    5) TORIES 14% AND 13%, LIBS NOT EVEN “A RUMP” AT 3 SEATS PROJECTED
    6) SALMOND POPULARITY + 17%, CAMERON -43, CLEGG -54, MILLIBAND -41
    7) LAMONT – 18, DAVIDSON, -32, RENNIE -27%!

    On Scotland votes gives 71SNP 38Lab 14Con LD3 Gre2 Ind1

    ReplyDelete