Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Impact Of The Debate May Be Overstated

I was wondering why my prediction that the debate would have no impact turned out to be so completely wrong. The answer may be that it didn't, it just happened to occur as the Liberal Democrats were on the rise.

4 comments:

Senior said...

It is hard to know whether the first televised debate had an impact, without knowing how the people who were polled after debate were planning to vote before the debate. After the general election results have been revealed, the impact of the televised debates will still be unknown and disputed.

Ross said...

It is difficult to distinguish between those who watched the debate and those who reacted to the coverage of the debate.

Matthew said...

Surely the YouGov daily polls didn't show this, though?

Ross said...

You could be right.