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Tuesday, 12 January 2010

BBC Poll Tracker at it again

I have reported before how the BBC's Poll Tracker seems to update only after the most favourable of a group of opinion polls. It seems that the BBC are at it again as the last poll shown on Poll Tracker is the ICM poll from 9 January which showed the Conservatives unchanged on 40% with Labour down 1% at 30%. Oddly the more recent You Gov poll that showed the Conservatives unchanged on 42% and Labour unchanged on 30% has still not been updated and neither has the latest Populus poll that shows the Conservatives up 3% at 41% and Labour down 2% at 28%.

I would complain about this lack of updating but no doubt I would just get a reply from the BBC telling me, like last time, that: "We have had some minor technical problems with the polltracker which are being rectified this morning. Both polls will shortly appear. Please be assured there is no intent to distort the data in favour of any of the main parties.".

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