Pollster feels vindicated

IN Media Watch Briefs | 09/11/2015

The Axis exit poll which CNN IBN chickened out of using when it predicted the huge margin of victory for the Grand Alliance accurately, now stands vindicated. The pollster, Axis-Ad-Print-Media put out a statement stressing its 100 per cent accuracy. It had predicted 169-183 seats for the JDU alliance and had also predicted each party's share pretty accurately. Meanwhile Today's Chanakya, which predicted 155 seats for the BJP and around 80 for JDU issued a statement today saying that actually they meant the opposite. "...a simple computer template coding marking the alliances got interchanged at our end. Due to this our seat numbers remained the same but respective alliances got interchanged."

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