04-07-2024, 09:17 PM
(04-07-2024, 09:09 PM)Transmission Wrote: With the talk earlier about previous exit polls, an interesting little anecdote by Lewis Goodall on the News Agents podcast. He said that on the 2017 election night when John Ryley was shown the exit poll he went up to him to ask if they had coalition builder graphics. Lewis said he thought they had but they hadn't practised with them (unusually they'd rehearsed lots of sizes of Conservative majority but not much else) so Ryley told him he better get started on that now.If true, a little sloppy of Sky not to rehearse a full range of options, especially considering the YouGov MRP had been pointing to a hung parliament for two weeks before polling day. I wonder if they're less broad with their range of rehearsals than the BBC because the latter know they'd get it in the neck if it got out that they were only rehearsing certain results.