“It’s torture”: why politicians have become addicted to “rolling” polls. The closer the election gets, the more the slightest development can be experienced as a cataclysm in political families.
If you are high in the polls, you are less anxious, but if you are lower, the slightest change of 0.5% can change everything. A particularly true observation for the European elections: a list below 5% cannot send any elected official to the European Parliament.