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October 2012
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30%
15% 10%
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33%
16% 12%
15% 12%
13% 12%
13% 11%
16% 11%
16% 11%
15% 12%
15% 10%
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9%
10% 8% 6% 8% 8% 6% 6%
1% -3% Jan-12
3% 2%
4% 0%
3%
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Economic Optimism
74% 58% 51% 45% 37% 6% -21% -21% -51% -61% -18% -40% -27% 59% 38% 23% 57% 39% 28% 34% 18% -11% -42% -14% -8% -28% -46% 79% 68% 61% 53% 42% 27% 55% 41% 26% 69% 72% 62% 52% 44% 34% Country as a whole - Badly Me & family - Badly Me & family - Well Country as a whole - Well Me & family Net Country as a whole - Net
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55%
54%
55%
46%
49%
51%
45%
March 2011
45%
46%
54%
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With our economy facing challenges in the months ahead, who do you most trust to manage the economy in the best interests of Britain? David Cameron, Nick Clegg and the Chancellor of the 13% Exchequer George Osborne, or Ed Miliband and the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls?
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41% 41% 28% 39% 32% 30% 33% 25% 37% 35% 36%
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31% 30%
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Party Attributes: For ordinary people not just the better off
66% 57% 52% 48% 43% 47% 31% 34% 30% 25% 52% 52% 45% 46% 31% 24% 43% 57%
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Who do you trust more to cut the deficit without hurting the most vulnerable
46% 43% 37% 26% 23% 19% 19% 20% 22% 20% 16% 47%
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Who do you trust more to get the balance right between tax rises & spending cuts
39% 38% 31% 28% 20% 37% 33% 37% 31%
18%
16% 13%
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12%
9%
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25%
11%
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17%
16%
16%
14%
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11%
11%
11%
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Who do you trust more to steer the economy through difficult times
42% 42% 39% 35% 31% 32%
12%
11% 7%
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10%
10% 7%
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Sep 2012
62.2
67.8
53.8
47.2
44.8
43.4
46.0
42.0
42.2
34.5
39.2
31.6
Cameron
Clegg
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Cameron
31.3
Clegg
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Sep 2012
56.9 41.5 39.2
51.5
46.3
39.2
42.0
42.2
31.6
38.8
30.1
30.8
Miliband
Balls
Miliband
Balls
29.6
39.1
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Sept 2012 87% 87% 66% 50% 31% 44% 62% 44% 59%
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I am dissatisfied with the job that David Cameron is doing overall as Prime Minister - BUT I'd still prefer to have him as Prime Minister than have Ed Miliband as Prime Minister I am dissatisfied with the job that David Cameron is doing overall as Prime Minister - AND I'd prefer to have Ed Miliband as Prime Minister instead DK/Ref
13% 9%
June 2012
Sep 2012
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60%
% preferring DC to EM as PM
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A Question of Leadership?
37% 31% 23%
I am dissatisfied with the job that David Cameron is doing overall as Prime Minister - BUT I'd still prefer to have him as Prime Minister than have Ed Miliband as Prime Minister I am dissatisfied with the job that David Cameron is doing overall as Prime Minister - AND I'd prefer to have Ed Miliband as Prime Minister instead DK/Ref I am satisfied with the job David Cameron is doing overall as Prime Minister
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Lab 98%
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60%
54% 33%
9%
Sep 2012
% preferring DC to EM as PM