Populus has obliged NME magazine with an insight into the yoof vote. Unsurprisingly, the Lib Dems do best with 37% of the vote, though Charles Kennedy is not rated highly as a potential PM ("Kennedy is like Keane 'cos they are weak and flimsy and not that good." Michael Howard is compared to The Darkness: "Something wrong about them, but suddenly very powerful." (Some mistake, surely?) Asked which rock star they would like to see in Downing Street, the earnest Chris Martin of Coldplay was mentioned, as were Dominic Masters from The Others, Thom Yorke, Morrissey and Bono. But perhaps the most surprising finding was that this young and presumably relatively healthy sample cited the NHS as their main preoccupation.
Newsnight's Student House, meanwhile, is finally starting to take an interest in the election. Promising.
