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Your Home, Your Vote: Polling 101

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Former prime minister John Diefenbaker once famously said: “polls are for dogs”.

Given the wild fluctuations, and surprising result of the election, the accuracy of pre-election polls is certainly under question. But as Scot Urquhart found out, there were a lot of factors influencing election polls in this campaign — not the least of which was modern media: