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NewsArse: "Latest opinion polls show drop in support for opinion polls"

The latest series of opinion polls released today show a significant fall in the popularity of opinion polls, with support for opinion polls down 7% on a series of opinion polls taken just minutes earlier.

In a joint series of polls conducted, as always, by ICM, MORI and YouGov, the pollsters polled a random selection of 3000 voters, with the results weighted by how often they had been called by pollsters for their opinions in the previous 48 hours.

Support for opinion polls, which previously polled at an average of 43% across the pollsters, polled at 37% in the three polls polled at 22:00 last night, a swing of 7% on average against the previous polling which was polled at 21:58.

There was a significant increase to 55% of support for, “fuck off and stop fucking polling me”, which could be indicative of a drop in support for polls when combined with the prior polling information, and the polled drop in support for polls weighted against the polls taken 14 minutes previously. (...) >>>

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