The madness of political opinion polling
I’m quite a fan of well-used market research in politics (as long as you remember to avoid the lying cross-tabs). But this? Oh dear:
At last night's NEC, Labour's ruling body "discussed the meaning of ordinary", according to a source who was present
— Sam Coates Times (@SamCoatesTimes) November 5, 2014
Apparently Labour has done some polling and found out that ordinary people don't like to be called ordinary. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG
— Sam Coates Times (@SamCoatesTimes) November 5, 2014
I don’t think this is quite what the inventor of political opinion polling Doctor Gallup (pictured) quite had in mind…
Leave a Reply