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“It’s torture”: why politicians have become addicted to “rolling” polls

2024-04-07T17:44:28.986Z

Highlights: “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.


The closer the election gets, the more the slightest development can be experienced as a cataclysm in political families.


Officially, the candidates barely say they look at them. But in reality...

“Those who say they don't care are liars

,” warns an old hand in electoral campaigns. In reality, these daily polls - called "rolling" - are observed under the microscope by the candidates and their teams. That of the euro-rolling carried out by Ifop-Fiducial for the European elections of June 9, 2024, and launched from this Monday on the Figaro website

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will not escape the rule. The closer the election gets, the more the slightest development can be experienced as a cataclysm in political families.

An environmentalist executive says:

“Rolling is torture. We waited for this every day with great anxiety. 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...

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Source: lefigaro

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