Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Labour keen to know who you voted.
Just had the Labour support worker popping around to my house to ask who I voted for. Bit cheeky. Never seen anyone doing this before. Outside the Polling Station is one thing but door knocking seems a little over the top. Surely Tottenham isn't a marginal (?)
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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Had the same but from the Lib Dems, although they didn't ask who I voted for? What was the point of the knock at the door then?
Just a side issue and to prove that politicians don't listen; I have had a sign on my front door requesting "no more political propaganda please", this as been completely ignored and I have more spin leaflets than tale away leaflets!
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I taped up my letter box but they just wedged them in the door and they fell at my feet when I opened it.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Did you get the 'Good Morning' leaflet from the Lib Dems this morning? :)
I didn't bother to ask whether it was for Parliamentary or borough because I was so surprised at his questioning. But I've assumed it was mainly about the Tottenham constituency because there are a team of 4 or 5 of them and surely Labour wouldn't be putting these type of resources into one ward (?)
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It's for control of the council. People to the east of us are not seeing this level of campaigning.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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A Lib Dem lady has just come looking for my hubby who is voting this evening after work...I have never known this level of campaigning. Actually I like it, wish they found this number of people to work for them between elections! I don't remember seeing anyone last time we elected the council or our MP!
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I think at this point they're not campaigning, they're getting the vote out. The most likely question is "Have you voted?". They'll have a list of who are their likely supporters. No idea how it's compiled. It seems not always to be accurate.
This is how Obama won his election. I spent some time at a dinner recently with a woman who worked on Obama's campaign. She said that social media was useful, but that its major use was mobilising volunteers to get get the vote out. Door-knocking and ferrying people to and fro may well decide the result in a tight borough marginal like this one.
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Karen Alexander (LibDem) was outside Polling Station (Frobisher Rd) and Alan Stanton (Labour -Tottenham Hale). Karen explained that they are taking polling card numbers so that they don't knock on the wrong people's doors when trying to encourage folk to come out and vote.
When I told them that a Labour person had knocked on my door to ask 'who had I voted' Karen was surprised. Alan had no answer, although he may give one on here later.
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Permalink Reply by Mark B on
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I know this will sound geeky and weird but I cant help worrying a bit about this. I know its only to see *who* voted, but I do enough data mining myself to know that you can easily put different and wildly diverse bits of information together and draw conclusions. For example my mate used to run the back end of the Sainsbury's reward program. It was great fun in the pub to hear that people who buy X also buy Y. Trust me on this there are some very odd correlations in peoples shopping.
So it's all well and good putting data together - but then drawing conclusions and shaping their policy is what happens next. So hypothetically a candidate knocks on everyones doors to find out who will vote, and for which person (if you answered the doorstep questions they have both). Then something strange happens like Mr Prescott punching someone in the gob, and people change their minds and vote another way.
And then a 20ish yr old bright spark working in a party (like both Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne were) will put the two together and draw the conclusion: "we need to get Mr Prescott punching more people for our vote to go up". And that shapes strategy.
Overall I am really really uncomfortable that such a fantastically brilliant diverse area like ours - or even more complicated our intentions - can be summarized with such shoddy and simple data.
And I am sure they would do it because I would.
I was told by the Lib-Dem at the Cavendish Road polling station that they would be knocking later, so I am not sure why KA. is "surprised" - unless it was surprise at L. doing it so early?
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Permalink Reply by DavidJ on
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The parties compile lists of people who say will vote for them during canvassing (they might well use lists from previous campaigns). These are the people they will 'knock up' throughout the day until they have voted. They know you have voted if you give your poll number to the party people outside the booths.
It looks like a realy good turnout to me - which is great to see.
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The Polling Station at Frobisher Rd is very busy.
David Dimbleby says this election is the 'biggest election for a generation'.
Even Google is in on the act. :)
More people out and about walking than cars on the road ... for a change!
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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The polling station at South Harringay was pretty busy too, and the staff there said it had been like that all day. Would be great to get a higher turnout than the dismal 60% or so at the last two?
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