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Re:UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and... by vidarh on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:47AM (#14485710)
People have stopped rolling their eyes at the "beardy communist". At least one favourability poll now shows Corbyn being seen more favourable than May, and he's closing the gap rapidly in every one of them. At the same time Labour is closing the gap as well (with one poll showing Labour down to 1% behind). Whether it will close it enough by polling day is the big question, but what seems clear is that the Tories relentless personal attacks on Corbyn no longer work very well.
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Re:UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and... by roryisok on Monday June 05, 2017 @03:40AM (#14485906)
Those same polls predicted brexit would not happen and Clinton would win. I fear May will get the majority yet again. For a lot of people, her calls to essentially end cryptography will be seen as "doing something", and they will blindly vote for her.
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Re:UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and... by sangnoir on Monday June 05, 2017 @06:09AM (#14486433)
> Those same polls predicted brexit would not happen and Clinton would win

You say it like it's a major indictment - people just don't understand probability and low probability events occur all the damn time. On the flip-side people also play the lottery.

A lot of factors contribute to poll errors: sample group is never perfectly representative of actual voters, people lying on their voting intention if they feel it's not socially accepted, &tc. That does not make polls worthless.

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Re:UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and... by vidarh on Thursday June 08, 2017 @05:57AM (#14513047)
I too fear she will win again, but the poll improvements for Corbyn are several times the margin of error, while as others have pointed out, the Clinton/Trump result was within the margin of error.
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Re:UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and... by cmurf on Monday June 05, 2017 @12:35PM (#14488970)
No that's not true. The polls were within the margin of error. The polls were exactly right. The problem is the result landed within the margin of error, that the predicted error itself meant it wasn't possible to know with any certainty what was going to happen.
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