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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Frantic campaigning on the final full day, with an apparently confident Labour nevertheless continuing the "Don't risk a Tory government" line.

All three parties, in fact, seem to be more concerned with why voters shouldn't vote for the other two than being positive about their own ambitions.

Amid rumblings of discontent within their party, the latest poll in The Times shows the Conservatives in a "worse position than before their record defeats in 1997 and 2001".

The Populus poll has the Tories on 27 per cent, with Labour on 41 per cent and the Lib Dems up 2 points on 23 per cent, their highest level of the campaign.

Yet, here's something to think about. It may just be that - like in the 1992 election, when no-one polled would own up to intending to vote Tory - this time around no-one will admit to voting for either the Conservatives or Labour. If that's the case, then the Lib Dems support might be artificially high.

Elsewhere in The Times, meanwhile, Simon Jenkins, says that if Labour wins, it will represent a "seventh victory in a row for Margaret Thatcher."

Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, continuing his guest slot for The Guardian, praises the prime minister's final morning press conference.

The Sky News "interest index" hasn't been in positive territory once, but deep down, has it really all been that boring?

With an estimated 6.5m postal votes expected to be cast, the shadow cast by potential fraud is potentially a long one; another arrest this morning probably does nothing to make anyone feel better.

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