Comments on: Has Gordon Brown dropped a big hairy one? http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/10/04/has-gordon-brown-dropped-a-big-hairy-one/ "crass, boorish and more a bruiser than blogger" - Alex Wilcock Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:24:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: 24dash.com | Lynne Featherstone | More backing for fixed-term Parliaments http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/10/04/has-gordon-brown-dropped-a-big-hairy-one/#comment-97395 24dash.com | Lynne Featherstone | More backing for fixed-term Parliaments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:19:24 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/10/04/has-gordon-brown-dropped-a-big-hairy-one/#comment-97395 [...] in the wind: Ming Campbell on last night’s Question Time and Lib Dem blogger of the year James Graham on his blog have both spoken out in favour of fixed-term Parliaments in the wake of the latest [...] [...] in the wind: Ming Campbell on last night’s Question Time and Lib Dem blogger of the year James Graham on his blog have both spoken out in favour of fixed-term Parliaments in the wake of the latest [...]

]]> By: Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #33 | Liberal Democrat Voice http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/10/04/has-gordon-brown-dropped-a-big-hairy-one/#comment-93993 Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #33 | Liberal Democrat Voice Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:11:09 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/10/04/has-gordon-brown-dropped-a-big-hairy-one/#comment-93993 [...] Has Gordon Brown dropped a big hairy one? on James Graham’s Quaequam Blog! blog. “The word hubris springs to mind.” Closely followed by [...] [...] Has Gordon Brown dropped a big hairy one? on James Graham’s Quaequam Blog! blog. “The word hubris springs to mind.” Closely followed by [...]

]]> By: Alex http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/10/04/has-gordon-brown-dropped-a-big-hairy-one/#comment-93700 Alex Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:43:32 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/10/04/has-gordon-brown-dropped-a-big-hairy-one/#comment-93700 It looks like Cameron got a slightly smaller bounce than Brown, lagged by a week. Give it a few days for regression to the mean, and it's a go go go! It looks like Cameron got a slightly smaller bounce than Brown, lagged by a week. Give it a few days for regression to the mean, and it’s a go go go!

]]> By: James Graham http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/10/04/has-gordon-brown-dropped-a-big-hairy-one/#comment-93672 James Graham Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:11:25 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/10/04/has-gordon-brown-dropped-a-big-hairy-one/#comment-93672 No, it suggests that if you live by the sword you die by the sword. I'm not saying polls are worthless, merely that they are what they are: snapshots of opinion. Consistently however people interpret changes in them to indicate enormous shifts in public attitudes rather than evidence that people have merely not yet made their minds up. No, it suggests that if you live by the sword you die by the sword. I’m not saying polls are worthless, merely that they are what they are: snapshots of opinion. Consistently however people interpret changes in them to indicate enormous shifts in public attitudes rather than evidence that people have merely not yet made their minds up.

]]> By: Bob Piper http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/10/04/has-gordon-brown-dropped-a-big-hairy-one/#comment-93666 Bob Piper Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:25:35 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/10/04/has-gordon-brown-dropped-a-big-hairy-one/#comment-93666 "What I don’t understand is why people put so much faith into opinion polls"... followed by.... "Now, with that gap narrowed, going into a General Election looks like lunacy." That sounds to me like you're putting too much faith in opinion polls... “What I don’t understand is why people put so much faith into opinion polls”…

followed by….

“Now, with that gap narrowed, going into a General Election looks like lunacy.”

That sounds to me like you’re putting too much faith in opinion polls…

]]> By: Laurence Boyce http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/10/04/has-gordon-brown-dropped-a-big-hairy-one/#comment-93606 Laurence Boyce Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:57:28 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/10/04/has-gordon-brown-dropped-a-big-hairy-one/#comment-93606 I still say there will be an election before Christmas which Brown will win. I still say there will be an election before Christmas which Brown will win.

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