
May 26, 2017 -- 6:09PM, IggypopBarker wrote:
Respected psephologists who use detailed prediction modelling are still predicting a >100 majority. This poll is the immediate aftermath of the Dementia Tax hoohah. A single policy can greatly influence individual polls but come election day when people have to tick the box it all boils down to who do they want to run the country.
They certainly are. However, when you look at the electoralcalculas model where that is predicted it has the Conservatives polling 47% and Labour 32.5% based on averages over the election period plus an addition for Conservatives (shy tories) and a subtraction for Labour (young persons that don't vote after saying they would). 47-32.5 is a fair way away from last night's yougov 43-38 poll. If that yougov poll was replicated in the final voting it would give a Conservative majority of 28.