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Pollsters another casualty of stunning UK election
One more black eye for pollsters!
Pollsters another casualty of stunning UK election
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London (AFP) - The Conservative party's unexpected triumph in Britain's general election delivers a hefty blow not only to the routed Labour party, but also to the pollsters who predicted a dead heat."The pollsters need to go off and interrogate themselves and poll each other to find who has been telling porkies to whom," concluded Conservative London mayor Boris Johnson."It's extraordinary that 11 polls on the eve of the election should get it so wrong."For months, the main survey-takers had the two parties neck-and-neck, flatlining at around 35 percent each.Only one day before the elections, YouGov, ICM and Survation called it a tie and three other polls published by TNS, Opinium and ComRes gave the Conservatives the narrowest of leads.Panelbase gave the Tories a two-point lead while all the newspapers wrote that a hung parliament was a certainty.
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