British Polls and the 1950 General Election.
Pre-election opinion surveys are today an integral part of election analysis. Despite the pollsters' rnispredictions in the U.S. presidential election of 1948, polls and surveys are still heavily relied upon both in the U.S. and abroad. Polls were used extensively during the British general election...
| Publicado en: | Public Opinion Quarterly Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 115 - 133 |
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