monkey wrote:Comres have the Tories picking up a 100 seat majority. So someone's wrong out of those two.
WorKid wrote:Corbyn would be less of a liability than McDonnell, plus he needs to show he can remember numbers. Might as well go for it.
I'm struggling to see how any of it is very useful. In 2015, mistaken polls may have influenced how people voted as they didn't want the predicted outcome which might have made them even more wrong.JonB wrote:This polling business is another blight on democracy.
monkey wrote:I'm struggling to see how any of it is very useful. In 2015, mistaken polls may have influenced how people voted as they didn't want the predicted outcome which might have made them even more wrong. People might have stayed at home for Brexit as that outcome looked like a foregone conclusion. Now people won't vote Labour because they can't win, will vote Tory because they can, won't vote Tory because they don't want a landslide, will vote Tory to avoid a hung parliament, all of this from polls that are all over the place. It's a mess.JonB wrote:This polling business is another blight on democracy.
monkey wrote:It's pretty indisputable that polls affect voting though imo.
JonB wrote:Even if they're not entirely reliable, it undermines the point of a secret ballot if everybody's constantly being told who everyone else is likely to vote for.
JonB wrote:Even if they're not entirely reliable, it undermines the point of a secret ballot if everybody's constantly being told who everyone else is likely to vote for.
It is a secret ballot, but constant polling undermines the point of it. Or one of the points of it anyway.Diluted Dante wrote:Does it though? No one will know who you cast a vote for. So, how is that not the definition of a secret ballot?Even if they're not entirely reliable, it undermines the point of a secret ballot if everybody's constantly being told who everyone else is likely to vote for.
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