Glad to hear you aren’t voting Conservative. I’ve been swayed to vote Lib

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by David.

Glad to hear you aren’t voting Conservative.

I’ve been swayed to vote Lib Dems, not because I’ve changed my view on Labour or anything, but because where I live Labour are second place and I see no realistic way how they could win.

Lib Dems are 4th where we live, but with the live TV debates who knows what’s going to happen in specific areas on May 6th, they are a serious choice now, so taking a BIG punt on the Lib Dems.

Basically my choice is wasting my vote on Labour or hoping there’s a MASSIVE swing to the Lib Dems, though most likely wasting my vote on the Lib Dems :-(

In my sites general election polls over the last 7 days almost 50% of the voters (19,000+ votes this week) voted Lib Dems!! I don’t expect this to be anywhere near the actual result on May 6th, but there’s definitely been a big shift to the Lib Dems. I noticed after the TV debates there was an early poll where the Lib Dems was in the lead before the pollsters factored in that the people they polled wasn’t a cross section of British voters (or something like that) and after they factored everything in the result changed to the Lib Dems being 3rd! It suggests the official polls might not be giving a true measure of the new Lib Dems support: wouldn’t be the first time the polls were wrong.

And I’m even torn on this decision since if the Lib Dems do pull a lot of votes from the Conservatives and not so many from Labour here, maybe Labour will win by default!!!!! There’s currently a 6,000 Tory majority here.

I’m a tactical voter to keep the Conservatives out of power and would quite like to see a Labour/Lib Dems coalition government.

I like Labour more than any other party (though I’m not impressed with their over all performance, they could and SHOULD do better), but the erosion of our civil liberties under Labour really worries me. With the Lib Dems holding a 100+ seats, Labour wouldn’t be able to pass any more civil liberty removing legislation.

Whilst in other policy areas a combination of Lib Dems and Labour policies (compromises) would work for me. Lib Dems are idealistic which is great, and Labour are more realistic (keep their feet on the ground).

Sheesh I hate the 1st past the post system. If we had the alternative vote system now it would be a very easy decision, Labour or Lib Dems 1 and 2 (not sure on the exact order, but it shouldn’t really matter).

Anyone else having this tactical voting problem?

David