UK General Election, June 8th 2017

[Reluctant Republican]

First post in this forum, I apologize in advance if my question is ignorant.

Would a result like the last few polls having Labour at 29 or 30% show that not many voters deserted the party after all? It's not all that worse than what they received at the last election, and would suggest that the conservatives greater strength came from other parties than Labour's own base which stayed mostly loyal?

Mind if they get 25% or something that's a clear slippage, but doing only a point or two worse in this election makes me think talk of the party falling apart is overstated. Of course that's only amongst their base, and if the most of the other 70% or so of voters regard the party strongly unfavorably it's still not a good position to be in.

[Reluctant Republican]

Sorry for the off track question, but do any of our American posters know if C-Span plans to cover the election? It generally does but I see nothing for it on its schedule.