Verdict on the pollsters

We are now getting towards the final post for Hal Berstram of this election night, as alcohol intake has been pretty high and most of the results have come in. I'd just like to say something abotu the match-up between the polls and the final results. Labout seems to have come in with something like 37% of the popular vote and the Tories with about 34%. This is closest to what the YouGov polling was predicting, and it may well be that the result vindicates the YouGov strategy - even though I still can't understand how an internet polling service can deliver accurate results, given that a large percentage of the population is still not on the internet. My prediction that the polls were overestimating the Labour lead has turned out to be pretty much correct. We should be able to tell pretty much what the Labour majority is in the next hour or so.