{"id":2371,"date":"2010-04-21T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T14:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2010-04-21T15:04:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T14:04:30","slug":"con-25-ld-548-lab-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/con-25-ld-548-lab-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Con 25, LD 548, Lab 41"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/libdems\/4497706278\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4013\/4497706278_3d768be6f0_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/libdems\/4497706278\/\">Election 2010 &#8211; Day 1: Nick Clegg in Watford<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/libdems\/\">Liberal Democrats<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>YouGov asked an interesting question recently: &#8220;How would you vote on May 6 if you thought the Liberal Democrats had a significant chance of winning the election?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The result is astounding.  YouGov&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/my.yougov.com\/commentaries\/peter-kellner\/could-the-lib-dems-win-outright.aspx\">Peter Kellner writes<\/a>: &#8220;The responses: Lib Dem 49%, Conservative 25%, Labour 19%. On the \u2013 admittedly unrealistic \u2013 assumption of uniform national swing, there would be 548 Lib Dem MPs, 41 Labour MPs and just 25 Tories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course many people are going to vote for their sitting MP, and others will assume the Libdems can&#8217;t win in their constituency, so they won&#8217;t win this big.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it is a very important result.  It shows the Libdems are only the third party because of the electoral system, and they can become the main political party of the UK soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election 2010 &#8211; Day 1: Nick Clegg in Watford Originally uploaded by Liberal Democrats YouGov asked an interesting question recently: &#8220;How would you vote on May 6 if you thought the Liberal Democrats had a significant chance of winning the election?&#8221; The result is astounding. YouGov&#8217;s Peter Kellner writes: &#8220;The responses: Lib Dem 49%, Conservative 25%, Labour 19%. On the \u2013 admittedly unrealistic \u2013 assumption of uniform national swing, there would be 548 Lib Dem MPs, 41 Labour MPs and just 25 Tories.&#8221; Of course many people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}