I have to say it is rare that the polls get the result right but Yougov did a brilliant job of predicting the Conservative leadership vote. Yougov are an internet pollster and yet considering there are some that argue that the internet is not yet a tool for politics they have been doing a good job in getting the polls right, both here and at the General Election.
The explosion of internet activity around this leadership election has been fascinating. Both Conservative Home and Guy Fawkes' Blog have received a million hits in the past six months. Boris received over 650 comments on his leadership piece alone. Blogs are becoming a powerful tool. As Guido Fawkes has discovered there are even members of the press who use the blogs as sources for stories (although of course they rarely credit them).
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