British Ponder Role of Polls in Election Campaign
Alexander MacLeod, Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
BRITAIN'S public opinion pollsters are reexamining their role after getting the result of the April 9 general election completely wrong.
Amid calls to ban opinion polls before the next general election, the five main polling organizations have set up a special investigation unit. Its task will be to examine why, instead of predicting the Conservative Party's eventual victory, they all anticipated an election too close to call.
Robert Worcester, chairman of the Mori organization, which carried out surveys for the London Times, said large numbers of voters had made last-minute switches from the opposition Labour and Liberal Democrat parties to the ruling …
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Article title: British Ponder Role of Polls in Election Campaign.
Contributors: Alexander MacLeod, Monitor - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: April 22, 1992.
Page number: 6.
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