- Jul 7, 2003
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BBC website giving us an insight from some real political heavyweights tonight. Here's what Richard Madeley thinks about the election so far
"We were told by the polling officer at our station in North London that it was the busiest polling day he could remember - and he's been doing it for 25 years. He said it was absolutely rammed in the first two hours. I think early results based on exit polls are probably wrong. I think the volume vote is going to tell us something quite different. I think this election has been defined by the X Factor quotient: these debates... meant that the leaders burst out of the corral of protected politics and were seen just fleetingly as the men that they are. I think that changed things dramatically."
"We were told by the polling officer at our station in North London that it was the busiest polling day he could remember - and he's been doing it for 25 years. He said it was absolutely rammed in the first two hours. I think early results based on exit polls are probably wrong. I think the volume vote is going to tell us something quite different. I think this election has been defined by the X Factor quotient: these debates... meant that the leaders burst out of the corral of protected politics and were seen just fleetingly as the men that they are. I think that changed things dramatically."