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The Number Game: Best of the best
Published on Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 23:21, Updated on Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:25 in 
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MAN FRIDAY: Majority of those polled say Sonia Gandhi is the best replacement for Manmohan Singh.
New Delhi: The State of the Nation Survey had over 15,000 respondents in 19 states and 970 localities.
The survey was conducted between January 9 and January 14, close to 500 interviewers.
Seventy-two per cent of India's population is in rural areas, our survey had 76 per cent representation from rural areas.
Women comprise 48 per cent of our population, while our survey had 45 per cent women respondents.
Eighty-one per cent of our population is Hindu, and in our survey 80 per cent of respondents were Hindu.
Thirteen per cent of India's population is comprised of Muslims, while 12 per cent of our respondents were Muslims.
Sixteen per cent of our population are Adivasis, while our survey had 20 per cent Adivasis.
Changing fortunes since 2004 | |||
Stronger than Before | Weaker than Before | Same | |
| Congress | 32% | 8% | 24% |
| BJP | 10% | 26% | 26% |
| (Rest No Opinion) | |||
Representative Sample | ||
Actual | Survey | |
| Rural | 72 | 76 |
| Women | 48 | 45 |
| Hindu | 81 | 80 |
| Muslim | 13 | 12 |
| Dalit | 16 | 20 |
| Adivasi | 8 | 8 |
Sonia Vs Vajpayee as popular choice for PM | ||||||
1998 | 1999 | 2004 | 2006 January | 2006 August | 2007 January | |
| Sonia | 17.7% | 26.9% | 27.2% | 23.8% | 27.9% | 28.3% |
| Vajpayee | 26.8% | 37.1% | 38.3% | 19.3% | 18.5% | 18.5% |
| CSDS NES Series (1998-2004) | ||||||
Replacement of Manmohan Singh (Only Congress voters) | |
| Sonia Gandhi should take over | 45% |
| Manmohan Singh should continue | 28% |
| Someone else from Congress to replace | 9% |
| No opinion | 18% |
Vote Share | |
| Alliance | Survey January 2007 |
| UPA | 43.2% |
| NDA | 28.1% |
| Left Front | 5.9% |
| Others | 22.8% |
Vote share of alliances if Lok Sabha elections are held tomorrow | ||||
| Alliance | 2004 | 2006 (Jan) | 2006 (Aug) | 2007 (Jan) |
| UPA | 36.5% | 42.3% | 44.4% | 43.2% |
| NDA | 35.9% | 32.3% | 30.8% | 28.1% |
Seats projection | |||
| Alliance | 2006 (Jan) | 2006 (Aug) | 2007 (Jan) |
| UPA | 274 | 306 | 300 |
| NDA | 150 | 120 | 115 |
| Left Front | 53 | 60 | 60 |
| Others | 66 | 57 | 68 |
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As far it is game of numbers, it is fine. But hwen you reduce the democracy to the game of
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Sonia is the only true Indian in India
Manmohan is the best PM
All Congress Ruled states are the best ruled states
Rahul
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BJP is dead, its time to bury them for good.
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Your ignoble batting for the Congress Party is well known; you are only trying to reinforcing it now!
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MANMOHAN SINGH HAS NO OTHER WORK
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