Obama is exactly the kind of figure that the Bradley effect says should do better in
polling than in reality.
Not exact matches
Consequently, the possibility to nowcast a campaign, that is, to track trends
in real time and capture (eventual) sudden changes (so called «momentum»)
in public opinion faster
than is possible through traditional
polls (for example, the results of a TV debate), becomes a
reality.
But hang on: a very similar
poll YouGov conducted for PoliticsHome
in 2008 showed a 145 seat Conservative majority if voting had taken place randomly at that moment, and an exact repeat
in 2009 showed 70, but by 2010 the
reality was... less
than zero.
Unlike
in May 2015 though I've a good idea of what went wrong (the turnout model we used for the
poll weighted down people who didn't vote at the last general election, when
in reality turnout ended up being higher
than the last general election), which is something that can be worked on.
Reality is that nothing will even be looked at until after the 2012 elections — and only then if the Democrats are considerably more successful at the
polls than in 2010: which looks likely, given recent Republican insanities: but who knows?
Such
reality is further revealed
in a survey conducted by LendEDU
in November 2017 with approximately around 77 percent of the
polled 565 Americans claiming that Bitcoin price will increase higher and faster next year
than its seventeen-fold appreciation
in 2017.