Thursday, May 06, 2010

High Turnout?

Purely anecdotal evidence, but I hear of queuing at polling stations in Oxford and in the West Midlands this morning. A high turnout is not usually deemed to favour the Tories, but this time, with the huge number of undecided voters, might it mean that people have decided to come out and vote for a change after all? Conservative HQ was reported to be optimistic of a majority earlier today, with its phone operation placing some 10,000 calls to undecided voters this morning.

2 comments:

Hullabaloo said...

We have people queuing at every polling station in the morning and in the evening, so all seems to be well. And it'll be a surprisingly high turnout for the locals :)

Giles Marshall said...

Could we be back in the 70s this election?

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