Saturday, April 30, 2016

Desperate Dugdale ducks for cover as latest polls reveal the Scottish people's message to Labour is simple and stark : "Exterminate! Exterminate! EX-TER-MI-NAAAAAATE!!!!!!"

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Apologies for the three days of radio silence, during which we've had a couple of new Holyrood polls with slightly conflicting messages...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

NEW FILM : How the voting system for the Scottish Parliament works, and why "tactical voting" is such a big risk

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A couple of weeks ago, I jetted off (if you can jet off by train) to a top-secret mystery town somewhere between Dunblane and Bannockbu...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Latest EU referendum telephone poll shows slight improvement for Leave

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It's been ages since I last posted anything about EU referendum polling, which is probably just as well, because I've been exasperat...
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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Reader's questions : a Patrick Harvie conundrum

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Niall posed an interesting question on the previous thread, which I thought might be worth responding to in a bit of detail... "You kn...
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One week on, have the Sunday Herald learned the lessons of their wildly inaccurate reporting on so-called "tactical voting on the list"?

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The short answer to that question is "only partly".  As editor Neil Mackay hinted would probably be the case, they've gone bi...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

Devastated Dugdale starts praying for a "Bobby Ewing in the shower" moment after savage Survation survey extinguishes all other hope for Scottish Labour

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Constituency ballot : SNP 53% (+1) Lab 18% (-3) Conservatives 17% (+1) Liberal Democrats 7% (+1) Regional list ballot : SNP ...
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Thursday, April 21, 2016

A different type of 'outer darkness'

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Iain Macwhirter in the Herald - "Though [John Curtice] has been cast into outer darkness along with the Sunday Herald for suggest...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

In the unlikely event that RISE win a seat, they'll be doing a John Swinburne, not a Colin Fox

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You've probably already seen RevStu's "five cold, hard facts about the election" .  You might think this is ironic coming ...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

It doesn't matter whether you're an optimist or a pessimist about the SNP's chances : "tactical voting on the list" is a bad idea either way

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As you probably saw on last night's post , John Curtice made clear that so-called "tactical voting on the list" becomes very r...
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Monday, April 18, 2016

In quotes : what John Curtice ACTUALLY said about "tactical voting", and how it differs from what the Sunday Herald claims he said

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To my genuine astonishment, the editor of the Sunday Herald has spent much of the last 24 hours sticking doggedly to the hopeless fiction th...
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