please empty your brain below
i like big red blobs.
what *was* the daily telegraph's editorial staff thinking? 65\\% for the con servatives?
i think not.
i'm keeping my fingers crossed for a labour victory, an increase in seats for the lib dems and decimation for the tories.
now, what about voting in NI then? who will get the votes in the sunny six-county paradise that is ulster? only time will tell...
e.g. The Indie is more LibDem than the Grauniad.
e.g. a suprising number of Mail & Express readers would vote Labour and LibDem.
e,g. Sun and Star readers vote how the paper tells them to vote.
e.g. The Torygraph and Mirror are entirely predictable and probably cancel each other out.
1) That 35\\% of Telegraph readers would NOT vote Conservative.
2) That over half of FT readers would NOT vote Conservative.
3) That a higher proportion of Mirror readers would vote Labour than the proportion of Telegraph readers would vote Conservative. (OK - only just higher - but this one I find the most fascinating of all)
dg writes: Ah, that seems to be an Internet Explorer thing. I'll see if I can fix it...
More interesting than the Telegraph numbers are the Mail numbers. I know a lot of people who read the Telegraph just because it has the best sports pages, so that would skew their numbers. But why on earth a Labour or Liberal supporter would ever read the Fascist Gazette is beyond me.
Of course the whole thing is kind of a vicious circle. I'm a lifelong Lib-Dem and have been a loyal Independent reader since it was first published. We choose our newspaper because we want to read opinions that mesh with our own. And conversely, the papers skew their opinions towards the general views of their readership in order to keep their loyalty.
I worked with someone who said she read the Telegraph to ensure that her views and prejudices were being constantly challenged, and thus, strengthened. I read an article in the New Statesman requesting a 'Telegraph for Lefties' because of the high standard of reportage.
Apaprently, relatively few people choose the Express or Mail for their political slant but because they regard them as more cerebral than the redtops yet less time consuming than the Broadsheets. Some choose them for sections such as Femail; others because they tend to be 'news'papers rather more than celeb-obsessed scandal sheets. One can debate the finer points of that but I think there's more than an element of truth in it.
I also strongly suspect the Lab\\% in the Guardian will drop below 50 this time round.
If it's alright with you, I'd like to link this entry from my blog.
Any bar or colour for 'Don't Give a F*&!', they're all rubbish? It'd be a big one...
My Dad has read the Daily Mail for at least 30 years, and he would never vote Tory, being a bit of a wooly liberal, so it's interesting to see there are so many more like him. The Daily Mail's horse racing coverage is excellent, and that's why he buys it, then he scoffs at their ridiculous political coverage.
dg, just a comment on your labelling. The orange colour labelled 'Lib' says to me 'Liberal Party'. The ones who never did merge with the SDP are still going strong, fighting elections and representing people on councils, especially in North West England. Maybe it would be better if your labels said 'LD' or 'LibDem'? Just a thought.
dg writes: There's not enough space to write LibDem, alas. 'LD' maybe, but that doesn't have quite the same level of instant understanding.
i didn't know that the graph was about how each paper's readers voted... i thought it was all about the outcomes the papers were predicting...
makes my previous posting seem a little bit daft, doesn't it?
now you know why i don't read the telegraph...
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