How did the polls get it so wrong?
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Large said the contentious comments by the Wildrose candidates were never captured in polls and other surveys conducted heading into the final week.
“We never got the chance to measure the last week with the Hunsperger and Leech comments,” he said, noting both could have painted the Wildrose as too much of a risk in the minds of many voters.
In addition, he suggested there could have been two other key factors at play that made the spate of surveys miss the mark.
“Strategic voting actually materialized,” said Large, pointing to the Liberal collapse as a sign of a move to the Tories to keep the Wildrose out of power.
And Large said there was also the “black hole of the undecided vote,” who seemingly moved toward the Tories come election day.
Several polls showed that up to 20 per cent of people were undecided last week before voting Monday.
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