2012 has been groundhog year: YouGov President, Peter Kellner, analyses Pollsters, like economists, social scientists and other data-watchers, thrive on change. When the numbers move, we have plenty to say. Sometimes, however, people, and therefore the data, let us down. This is one of those occasions. As far as the ...
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Leveson, public opinion and some unvarnished facts: an analysis by YouGov President, Peter Kellner An important part of the political battle following the publication of the Leveson report is to win over public opinion. YouGov has conducted the first post-publication survey for the Sunday Times. First, given the controversies that ...
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YouGov President, Peter Kellner, analyses what the public really want from the Leveson Inquiry Oscar Wilde famously described fox-hunting as ‘the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible’. As far as many voters are concerned, when MPs debate how to rein in newspapers following the publication of Lord Leveson’s report, it ...
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YouGov President, Peter Kellner, discusses Cameron's room for manoeuvre on the EU budget Conservative eurosceptics and Labour tacticians should beware. British hostility to the European Union is not as simple or complete as some of them think. YouGov’s latest survey for the Sunday Times suggests a nuanced set of attitudes, ...
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YouGov President, Peter Kellner, discusses the mid-term by-elections Beware analyses of mid-term by-elections (including this one, if you like). They are prone either to exaggerate or understate their meaning. It is “this shows the government is on its way out” versus “they tell us nothing at all about the next ...
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The problem of trust goes far wider than the BBC, YouGov President, Peter Kellner analyses The BBC has suffered more from the rows that led to the resignation of George Entwistle as Director-General than it did from its failure to report Jimmy Savile’s crimes. A YouGov survey for the Sun, ...
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Why the low turnout in this week’s police elections is good news - YouGov President, Peter Kellner analyses Last Tuesday, the day of America’s presidential election, also marked the midpoint in the current Parliament. It is too early to say whether the Government will succeed or fail on the big ...
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YouGov President, Peter Kellner, analyses Obama's re-election Barack Obama secured re-election by maintaining the coalition that gave him victory four years ago: black and Hispanic voters, young Americans, women and Americans with post-graduate degrees. These outnumbered Mitt Romney’s supporters among white men, older Americans and people who have not been ...
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YouGov’s final survey in America shows Barack Obama ahead in enough states to secure a second term as President, but by a narrower margin than in his first victory four years ago. In one of the most extensive polls ever conducted, YouGov questioned more than 36,000 Americans in 27 states, ...
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Has the time come to reassess the influence of social class on values and voting behaviour? Asks, YouGov President, Peter Kellner Fifty years ago, it was plainly what mattered most to voters deciding which party to support. As late as the 1980s, political scientists had good reason to wonder if ...
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