The Political Wire

Majority of Americans open to gay presidential candidate.

A new poll by American pollsters Zogby has found that 65 percent of U.S. voters would support an openly gay presidential candidate . Another 71 percent said that they could support the appointment of an openly gay Cabinet-level secretary. According to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, who Provides financial and campaign support to gay [...]

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Blair still more influential than Brown

Gordon Brown is still playing second fiddle to Tony Blair, thats if the latest poll is to be believed. According to a survey of 1000 businessmen and women, Tony Blair is still considered the most influential man in the UK despite handing power to Gordon over a year ago. On the upside this is one poll [...]

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Is Alan Johnson Labours best hope

Labour stands a better chance of winning the next General Election under a different leader. That’s the conclusion of the latest PoliticsHome PHI100 poll of political insiders and opinion formers, with less than one sixth of participants saying that Gordon Brown would maximize the party’s chances of winning the next election. Amongst the panel the most [...]

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Labour activists want anyone but Gordon

Its seems that everyone is launching tracker polls lately, first there was ConservativeHome then there was PoliticsHome, now LabourHome has unveiled its very own and it reveals yet more unpleasant news for the Prime Minister. In the survey of 330 Labour activists scored Gordon Browns performance as PM as meagre 3.37, on a scale of 1 [...]

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New poll shakes Labour to the core

Labour have been getting used to been hammered in the polls over recent weeks, and yet again they lose out to the Conservatives. In one of the most important surveys carried out so far, and whose results will shake the Labour movement to its trade union core, David Cameron is considered sexier than the Prime [...]

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