Last year I aggregated the polling data for the general election.

That was fun.

This year, I’m aggregating the polling data for the European Parliament election — the Italian part, anyway.

This is less fun.

As everyone knows, European Parliament elections are second-order elections. Voters use them not to vote on the issues — they don’t know about the issues — but instead to give the government a progress report.

And whilst progress reports are interesting, your view of government performance might not be rocked that much by campaign events. And that’s when there is a campaign — so far, the parties have promised to spend less “in light of the current economic climate”.

With that out of the way, I present you with some flat lines: