We've seen an increase in marginal polls and, more importantly, we've seen an increase in regular marginal polls — Lord Ashcroft and ComRes are both doing regular
polls of the same groups or group of marginal seats.
Not exact matches
The researchers asked a selected
group of voters to state their opinions on a variety
of real public policy questions, and then presented them with fabricated
poll results on the
same topics.
The
same will be true in the struggle for control
of Congress next year, as state parties, individual campaigns and outside
groups spend tens
of millions
of dollars targeting their voters and working to get them to the
polls.
Now the leader
of the
same group of bad leaders rejected twice at the
polls by Ghanaians on the basis
of the
of the grave mis - rule described above says «TRY ME!».
Marginal
polls used to only come along occasionally, varied a lot,
polled different
groups of seats, and didn't often happen right before elections so weren't tested against reality, meaning methods weren't finessed and improved over time in the
same way national
polls are.
Today's Times has a new YouGov
poll of Labour party members and registered supporters (so members, registered trade unionists and # 3 supporters — the
same group who were able to vote in the Labour leadership election).
The threat, from the anti-abortion
group Society for the Protection
of Unborn Children (Spuc), comes after David Cameron confirmed he would ensure
same - sex marriage legislation is passed before 2015, when the country goes to the
polls.
The rep / con and one
of the dem / lib
groups have a common behavior, the other dem / lib
group has a different behavior that nevertheless
polls the
same way.
On a less sugar - coated note, a new survey by
polling institute Ifop has found Parisians have a VERY adventurous attitude to sex: more a quarter
of Parisians have had
group sex, 43 %
of men said they have had sex with two partners at the
same time, the average Parisian claims to have had 19 sexual partners, while 44 %
of men claim to have had sex with someone without knowing their name, and 11 %
of women.