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Have you ever been at home when the phone's rung or there's a knock on the door or a box pops up on your computer, asking you to take part in an opinion poll?
Today, it's hard to imagine an election without opinion polls gauging the popularity of candidates and political parties.
Even our favourite chocolate bars and footballers are subject to polling.
But where and when did opinion polls first start?
How reliable are they and what impact do they have on the choices we make?
The polls did not predict it but Donald Trump's supporters dead.
Last minute deciders may prove the current polls wrong and traditional...
Celebrations here in central Athens at Syriza's election headquarters.
People jubilant they'd won by a much bigger margin than opinion polls have predicted.
Australia's ruling centre-right coalition has defied opinion polls with victory in the general election.
As opinion polls suggest an increasing yield...
The opinion polls have indicated that this was the tightest race in 50 years.
...outperformed polls that showed him losing value... ...Liber has been ahead in opinion polls since the count.
Sometimes the polls are wrong and the only poll that really matters is the actual result.
Well just some of the news coverage of elections and election polls around the world.
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