The benefits of radio call-ins

Mark Pack has blogged about the latest poll which, after his LBC show, seems to give Nick Clegg a much deserved boost.  I have an even less scientific basis for judging the impact: conversation at the school gates.

It was remarkably positive.  Someone I met even said: "I didn't know he had done all those good things."

It makes me wonder whether bypassing the extraordinarily narrow lens of the conventional political media may turn out to be the only way that a politician can now get their message across.