Winning channel, losing pollster

IN Media Watch Briefs | 08/11/2015

By 11 am on November 8 there were two clear media outcomes. CNN IBN which had been calling itself the election headquarters just as Times Now had, was the clear leader among channels, with far more leads at a given time than the others. It called the Bihar elections just after 10 am on the basis of far more leads that India Today. And Today’s Chanakya which had predicted 150 plus for the BJP was the clear loser among pollsters. The figures promised to be quite the reverse. Pollsters in general got this election wrong.

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