[Magdalen] The answer

Scott Knitter scottknitter at gmail.com
Thu May 7 22:16:58 UTC 2015


A tweet from The Independent said Labour was ahead in an exit poll, then
the BBC news site said Tories but short of a majority. Are these exit polls
usually good or are they like in the US where they mainly give presenters
something to fill time with until real results are known?
On May 7, 2015 4:06 PM, "Roger Stokes" <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> is in the bixes, tens of thousands of them up and down the country, but
> what it means will take time to berevealed.  Opinion polls have indicated a
> fairly steady picture of an equal division between the Conservatives,
> Labour and the other parties combined.
>
> The exit polls indicate a radically different make-up in the new House of
> Commons with a large increase in the number of SNP Members elected and a
> sharp reduction in the number of Liberal Democrats. Within the next 20
> hours we should know the actual make-up of the number of people elected.
> If, as expected, no party has an overall majority, the negotiayions over
> what happens could take quite a time.
>
> Americans, you get your own chance to vote in 18 months.
>
> Roger
>


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