Much of the commentariat and media has been in a froth for the last 24 hours about the supposed failure of the nation’s pollsters to predict the Conservative victory. This, for example, was Labour’s highly-paid election guru David Axelrod:
But the truth is that the polls – just like the heavily-maligned exit poll which turned out to be bang on the money – got nothing wrong. The people interpreting them did.
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The media might be shocked. But readers of Wings aren’t.
Because there’s simply no excuse for anyone acting surprised.
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Phew, eh?
(April 2014 on the left, December 2014 on the right.)
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Even we’re surprised how fast these are coming true.
Stay tuned for more. They’re on the way.
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Of posts subtitled “We told you so”.
Coming soon: Iraq War III, Tory victory in 2015, UK out of Europe in 2017. Hold tight.
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