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Junior Chimp
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« on: February 20, 2015, 06:27:00 PM »
UKIP voters are another matter. Thatcher-Blair-Cameron swing voters, to put it very crudely.
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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2015, 06:53:50 PM »
Quote from: Sibboleth on February 20, 2015, 06:27:59 PM
Who'd have thought that voters not attached to any particular party would be the most likely to swing behind a new one?

"Common sense" or "flakey"?
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« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2015, 05:43:45 PM »
Quote from: Antonio V on February 21, 2015, 06:28:33 AM
Quote from: Sibboleth on February 20, 2015, 12:03:24 PM
A fairly typical example of a LibDem barchart being...



LOL, I love how this makes it look like the Conservative vote would have been enough to put the Libdem over the Labour guy, even though by the numbers they show he would still have lost by 3000 votes. This is Fox News territory.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/decidedly-dodgy-liberal-democrat-graphs#.bhK2zvezb
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« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2015, 07:40:08 PM »
Another (more cynical) way to view the LibDems is that to win seats as... varied... as Brent Central/Redcar and Westmorland & Lonsdale/Twickenham at the same time, your only real electoral strategy is one of shameless local level populism, supported by very well targeted tactical votes and protest voters.
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