Boris Johnson is cruising despite the noise….
- There is a general election coming up in the UK on Dec. 12, and in the latest Opinium/Observer poll, the Conservatives comfortably led the Labour Party 42 percent to 26 percent. In third place were the Liberal Democrats at 16 percent, followed by the Brexit Party at 9 percent, and a few other parties polling below 5 percent. If the Conservatives hold this lead, they would have a majority in parliament…
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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was born on the Upper East side of New York City….
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Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
So the news in YouGov’s poll tonight is that it has Tories up 11 UK (fairly typical of recent polls). It’s no surprise that Tories would expect to win lots of seats if that’s the final margin. But MRP is not magic. It’s an OK/reasonable technique but its powers are overstated.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party is on pace to win a significant majority in the U.K.’s high-stakes election on Dec. 12, according to a major poll of 100,000 voters conducted by YouGov….
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