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This makes it very hard to determine the impact of digital media on the outcome of an election -- something that I discovered during my coverage of UKElection2010: Lessons Learned from Watching First Social Media Battle of Britain.
One of the differences between UKElection2010 and American politics is betting on the outcome. In the UK, the Telegraph's UK General Election2010 Opinion Poll Tracker includes a Betfair overall majority forecast.
And I predicted that UKElection2010 "will be fought on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and blogs. According to UK General Election2010 Opinion Poll Tracker in the Telegraph, the average of polls have Conservative at 34 percent, LibDem at 29 percent...
Later today, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg will participate in the YouTube Facebook Digital Debate, adding a new social media dimension the UKelection in 2010. General Election2010: first 'digital debate' on Facebook and YouTube...
And all this was before the UKelection2010 got underway in April. And it worth noting that YouTube.com accounted for 99.6 percent of all videos viewed on Google Sites, making Google Videos round off error.
The top term in this week's UKelection2010 seems to be "hung Parliament. In other words, it's trench warfare in social media as well as mainstream media in the UKelection2010, where each party battles in no man's land for a few yards of ground.
Yesterday, the guardian.co.uk general election2010: poll of polls showed the Conservatives with 34 percent (down more than 5 points from the previous Sunday), Labour with over 28 percent (down less than 3 points from the previous Sunday), and the...
But in his post, Oldham pointed out that you can use Google Insights for Search to track the election, too. So, yes, offline media will have an impact on the outcome of the UK general election as well as online media.