Suan Dusit scraps an exit poll in the Bangkok governor election

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Suan Dusit scraps exit poll

Published: 26 Feb 2013 at 19.19
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Suan Dusit Poll announced Tuesday it has scrapped plans to conduct exit polling for Sunday election for Bangkok governor.

The group blamed "the current political situation" and growing competition in polling.

The upcoming gubernatorial election will be the first without a Suan Dusit Poll exit poll since it started during the 2000 city election, won by the late Samak Sundaravej.

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ringmaster
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Discussion 10 : 27 Feb 2013 at 22.1310
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D9 "the practice (exit polling) is widely used by pollsters hired by NGOs and monitors to verify that elections are being conducted legitimately. The U.S. government has even financed exit polls in former Soviet republics and satellites to ensure votes are counted accurately."

Source: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1856081,00.html
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Discussion 9 : 27 Feb 2013 at 21.319
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D.8. Said who ? You ?

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Discussion 8 : 27 Feb 2013 at 12.118
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Exit polls help to expose any shenanigans in the official vote tallies. It seems odd that they've decided not to have one this year.
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Discussion 7 : 27 Feb 2013 at 11.367
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Discussion 4 englishbob : surprisingly the ones being threatened by the UDDs never lodged a complaint to the police.
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Discussion 6 : 27 Feb 2013 at 07.326
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The " President " has quit his job earlier, because of the polls.

BANGKOK: -- A veteran journalist from the mass-circulation Thai Rath has resigned as president of Suan Dusit Rajabhat University Council. He said he was dissatisfied that the university allegedly conducted opinion surveys to please the government.

Source ; http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/617291-thai-rath-newsman-quits-university-over-dusit-poll-row/

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Discussion 5 : 26 Feb 2013 at 23.315
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bluebkk 2 - "Dusit Poll afraid of the truth not lining up with their Dubai steered polls until now???? LOL and LOL"

The latest Suan Dusit poll shows PTP ahead of the Dems by 14%.

See the article "Are Suan Dusit Poll’s question biased in favour of the government and the likeability factor?" for details on why Suan Dusit made this decision.
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Discussion 4 : 26 Feb 2013 at 22.034
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Alternatively - polls are unreliable because UDD 'enforcers' threaten and intimidate voters on such a regular basis, that they don't feel safe answering honestly.
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Discussion 3 : 26 Feb 2013 at 22.003
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This is not the first gubernatorial election exit poll that Suan Dusit have done. The have been doing this exit poll for many past elections with rather convincing accuracy. That is now decide to scrap exit poll of this election due political pressure from the side or sides who are finding every excuses to blame and cover their shortcomings.
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Discussion 2 : 26 Feb 2013 at 21.472
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Dusit Poll afraid of the truth not lining up with their Dubai steered polls until now???? LOL and LOL
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Discussion 1 : 26 Feb 2013 at 20.591
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Suan Dusit Poll should have announced today they (at last) discovered the truth about the real world (waking up out of their university microcosm dreamworld), and apologized for the crap they have kept the opinion busy with. Time to learn rules from Farang polling institutes (which are still unreliable but at least hold elements of truth). A little help: 1): questions: easy to understand, unbiased and clear, 2) sampling: geo spread and size of the sample, etc...
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