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Grattan on Friday: Polls would present a risk for a narrowly re-elected Malcolm Turnbull

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Mark Textor, the Liberal pollster, has raged against the modern addiction to polls, in an article this week that shows he can indeed walk both sides of the street, as insider and observer.

Textor writes that the plethora of polls, with their usually small movements in the vote, rather than the issues, become the most frequent campaign stories. As...

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