UPDATE: A Politico story, "8 ways Jeremy Corbyn is winning," from this morning enumerates Corbyn's charge up the polls. Point eight is particularly sweet:
8. Standing room only
While packed rallies are not an indicator of voting intentions, Corbyn has managed to attract people to his campaign events in their thousands, giving him a sense of momentum when the images are beamed into people’s living rooms on the evening news. “I know the rallies are driving them mad at CCHQ [Tory headquarters],” one former Tory campaign strategist said. “They know they can’t match it and it’s a problem for them. The images are really good for Labour.”
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It’s funny to
track the huge swing in the Tory tabloid press as Corbyn surges towards next
week’s election. At first Corbyn was dismissed as an out-of-touch Mr.
Magoo riding his bicycle to nuclear-free extinction as Labour disappeared
forever. Now he is the Second Coming of Stalin thumping his red playbook for
re-nationalization of British industry while he conspires with the reviled
Nicola Sturgeon to carve up poor old John Bull.
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