Is the general election campaign like watching paint dry?

It is rather fashionable at the moment for those involved in politics to moan about what a boring election campaign this is shaping up to be, and how the only excitement will be once polls close and the results start rolling in. But interestingly fewer voters than you might think agree with this view.

YouGov asked at the weekend ‘how interesting or boring have you found the general election campaign so far?’, and while a majority – 51 per cent – said it was boring, 42 per cent said it was interesting. The ‘interesting’ camp was made up of 33 per cent of voters who thought the campaign ‘fairly interesting’, while 9 per cent said it was ‘very interesting’. When asked how closely they’d been following the campaign, 57 per cent said either ‘very closely’ or ‘fairly closely’, with 41 per cent saying either ‘not very closely’ or ‘not at all’.