… Not since 1886, the press widely reported, has a sitting party increased the number of seats and vote share as the Conservatives just did. Nearly every public poll reported a dead-even contest between Labour and the Conservatives. How could British pollsters have gotten it so wrong?
Just two months earlier in Israel, the world watched Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu savor his surprisingly large victory over his enemies in their national elections this past March. … How could the Israeli pollsters have gotten it so wrong?
What changed those elections at the very end—and, in turn, embarrassed the pollsters—was the willingness of right-wing parties to play the nationalist card, with all the attendant risks. CONT.
Stan Greenberg (Greenberg Quinlan Rosner), Politico Magazine