Thread: Polls Jan 2011
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Old 23rd January 2011, 18:10     #7
fixed_truth
 
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Originally Posted by GM
What fixed_truth said about the poll "actually account[s] for the mood of the swing vote" is made up by the polling company, there's no real statistical backing to that at all.
Could you explain what you mean by this? The Horizon poll asks the undecideds to give their preference (which reduces that group by about half) rather than only reporting the decided vote share (which most other polls do).
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