Election polls often tighten up remarkably as the election date draws near. “Leave” (the European Union) won the UK election of May 2016 with a majority of 51.9%, but earlier the polls weren’t nearly as tight—in January 2011 “Remain” was up by about 20 percentage points. In the 2020 presidential election in Poland, Andrzej Duda won with 51.0% of the votes, whereas he was up by about 5 percentage points just eight weeks earlier.
Why do large electorates tend towards evenly split results?
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New research into the use of the drug poppers (alkyl nitrites) has highlighted inconsistencies in proposed changes to drug policy in the UK and how exemptions to the law impact on minority groups.This post was [...]
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Between the July assassination attempt on Donald Trump, President Biden dropping out of the race and Kamala Harris becoming the Democratic nominee, this past summer was unlike any other period in the 2024 presidential race. [...]
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Last month, the Taliban passed a new “vice and virtue” law, making it illegal for women to speak in public. Under the law, women can also be punished if they are heard singing or reading [...]
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