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Denzil_DC

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14. Heh. Oh dear. Bad call!
Fri May 8, 2015, 10:08 AM
May 2015

I don't know the margin of error on that poll, but even those figures wouldn't be that far outside the usual MoE, so it would probably have been seen as an outlier earlier in the election.

Funnily enough, the SNP steadfastly refused to publicly base its campaigning on the polling, despite the fact that the seemingly pretty wild projections of the SNP winning 50+ seats with swings in the mid- to high 20s were borne out by many reports from on-the-ground canvassers on Twitter etc. People just kept their heads down and worked their asses off door-to-door. The results are there to see.

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Fuck [View all] LeftishBrit May 2015 OP
I just heard the same thing madaboutharry May 2015 #1
I second that sentiment! nt dorkzilla May 2015 #2
Cameron? Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #3
Labour didn't run the greatest of campaigns T_i_B May 2015 #5
It wasn't really a "splitter"-based vote. Denzil_DC May 2015 #10
What happened? The polls said there was only a one point difference still_one May 2015 #4
The running polls got it wrong. Denzil_DC May 2015 #11
One last minute poll wasn't made public, because they thought it was wrong muriel_volestrangler May 2015 #13
Heh. Oh dear. Bad call! Denzil_DC May 2015 #14
Do They use fredamae May 2015 #6
No, they don't. non sociopath skin May 2015 #7
Well, then..It is fredamae May 2015 #8
If you call council employees "voting machines". mwooldri May 2015 #19
I'd say. Triana May 2015 #9
Looks like a bloodbath malthaussen May 2015 #12
Looking at many sources this morning TBF May 2015 #15
I'm really sorry my UK friends. lovemydog May 2015 #16
Huh...Conservative-lite didn't work. Oh well, time to run Conservateive-lite in the US again. jeff47 May 2015 #17
There go my plans to move there shenmue May 2015 #18
Nothing but bloody Tory. :( mwooldri May 2015 #20
Indeed. potone May 2015 #21
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