The latest opinion poll of Westminster voting intentions have given the SNP a seven point lead over Labour.
When entered into Electoral Calculus, this puts the SNP and Labour neck-and-neck in Glasgow Central.
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A YouGov opinion poll has put the SNP ahead of Labour in voting intentions for Holyrood. This is across Glasgow, where this has never happened before. Tartan Hero has the full rundown.
While the poll is for the Scottish Parliament, it shows how the message of the SNP is resonating in areas where it never has before. It's also great news for myself and my Westminster candidate colleagues in the city.
I feature in the Sunday Herald's special pullout today entitled "The Brightest and the Best" about the people who are building the new Scotland.
It's not online so I can't give you a link. Same is true of a news piece on a project I'm working on at the moment. Check out the paper if you can, otherwise hopefully I'll blog about it in the near future.
Social networking websites are said to be the new battleground for politics. The contest for Glasgow Central is no different.
Both myself and Anas Sarwar have groups set up to support our respective campaigns. As of time of writing my group has 214 members, his 156.
You can join Osama Saeed for Glasgow Central here. His has been set up for about a month now, while mine has been in existence for a couple of weeks. Within 24 hours of it being put up though, my group raced ahead despite the headstart for the other guy.
Now if only elections were decided on Facebook...
Also, thanks to Marco Biagi for the kinds words of endorsement
