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Comres have chosen the audience for tonight’s referendum debate, any thoughts James?
James is travelling so may not get back to you any time soon.
Meanwhile (re Comres) on James’s blog – http://scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-numbers-game.html – Marcia notes that “there is an Independence question in the regular Independent on Sunday UK wide poll” and that “The Scottish sample has Yes in the lead.”
http://www.comres.co.uk/polls/SM_IoS_Political_Poll_24th_August_2014_12371.pdf
I am pasting in Scottish-Skier’s comment on this below (August 24, 2014 at 9:18 AM):
Modestly sized (170) subset from Comres
How favourable or unfavourable are you towards each of the following?
Independence for Scotland
45% Favourable
36% Unfavourable
9% Neither
11% DK
Now that’s not the Y/N question, but might be an indicator of leanings. It’s also a subset so normal caveats apply.
36% unfavourable is not far from long term historical No values too.
What might make it less suspicious is that we also have Westminster VI:
20% Con
29% Lab
6% Lib
37% SNP
With SNP on 3% of the national Total.
So, not very SNP at all (they’ve been getting into the 40’s and 4% of the national total quite regularly) and Tories a tad on the high side. Certainly lower than running averages for the SNP.
And whether people are favourable to Alex Salmond:
36% Favourable
40% Unfavourable
Which is the opposite of Scotland-wide polls and suggests our small Scottish sample isn’t very SNP / Salmond friendly.
Did of the sample come from a council housing scheme or do they not count?