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With fewer than three weeks to go, the polls aren’t really moving. Despite the debates, the clashing of antlers, the now constant drumbeat of policy pronouncements and financial giveaways, the voters aren’t being swayed much either way.

This week there have been 11 polls released, including five from YouGov. 7 of these give Labour the lead and 3 give it to the Tories, with one YouGov poll giving a 34/34 draw. Interestingly Labour’s biggest lead and the Tories’ biggest both came at the same time, Saturday evening for the Sunday papers – Labour got a 3 point lead in YouGov and the Tories’ a 4 point lead with Opinium.

One might be tempted to point to house or editorial bias – but Labour’s biggest lead was printed in The Times by YouGov, a pollster with (slight) Tory ‘house effect’; meanwhile the Tories’ biggest was in The Observer by a pollster with a Labour ‘house effect’.

So for some weeks now the polls have been consistently slightly up or slightly down, with the only discernible trend that the election is too close to call – so can we learn anything new from the polls?

Well despite the fact that it’s clear neither party seems to be able to deliver the game changer they need, there is one trend that we can discern. Both Cameron and Miliband’s poll ratings have been improving over the election campaign, with Miliband’s performing the best. While some of this can be attributed to Miliband’s ratings hardly being able to go lower than they were at the start of the campaign, it will be concerning for Tory campaign HQ which will have been relying on Miliband’s poor ratings to make the result decisive.

And now as the clock ticks closer to Election Day all this is really beginning to matter. This week, for the first time, votes are now being cast. Postal voters will soon be casting their votes in their millions.

With the end in sight and votes up for grabs perhaps this is when the fun and that last desperate minute grapple for votes really begins.

While the pundits may be loath to make definitive predictions, what we do know is it’s all still to play for as we head into the home straight.