Bigot-gate: How damaging will this be to Gordon Brown?

During an election campaign, it is inevitable that at least one politician will make some sort of slip-up under pressure, and the exciting campaign for 2010′s General Election is no exception. After a slip-up with a microphone, Gordon Brown was recorded as calling a widow a ‘bigot’ for challenging Labour’s policies and the subsequent media frenzy has been phenomenal. (Sky News showed non-stop footage for 45 minutes of the woman’s white front door after Gordon Brown returned to apologise later in the day.)

At the start of the day, Labour were trailing behind the Lib Dems in the polls. The disrespect that Gordon Brown showed to a voter could be damaging to his campaign, especially after how publically he paraded the woman before he got into the car. It’s too early to see what effect this will have but, given the speed he apologised to the woman (and the amount of times he apologised), the public may be somewhat forgiving. It will be interesting to see the YouGov poll in the morning.

However, I don’t think all is over for Gordon Brown. If, tomorrow night at the third debate, Gordon Brown prevails, defending the economy, whilst at the same time roping David Cameron into exposing his plans for the economy, he still has a chance. Yet, as the previous two debates have proven, it’s all up for grabs, and there can be such a big change overnight.

And who says this is the last gaffe we’ll see before the election is through?