psephologist
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Whenever inflation rises dissatisfaction numbers go up, said Yashwant Deshmukh, psephologist with C-Voter agency which conducted the India Today poll.
From Reuters ● Aug. 25, 2023
Knighted in 2017, he is perhaps the only psephologist in the UK who is routinely, albeit reluctantly, recognised in the street.
From BBC ● May 3, 2022
In a 63-page memo to the court, they explained their rationale for the changes in painstaking detail, including enough voting data to sate the most ardent psephologist.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2022
Sam Wang, a neuroscience professor at Princeton and part-time psephologist, kept a pre-election promise to eat an insect on live television if Mr Trump won more than 240 electoral-college votes.
From Economist ● Jun. 15, 2017
She mentions an article that famously accurate US psephologist Nate Silver published on his website, fivethirtyeight.com.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016
However, psephologists say that turnout numbers could prove inconclusive, particularly if they’re not very high or very low.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2016
The prospective coalition that had, until today, tickled the passions of psephologists everywhere was a binding together of the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party, or S.N.P.
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2015
It is most unlikely that Ukip's performance will be reflected in first-past-the-post seats at a general election, whatever the psephologists say.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2014
Still - his career is going to end up being studied by psychologists, rather than psephologists.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2010
Sociologists and psephologists call them "alienated" or "uncommitted"; editorial writers decry their "noninvolvement."
From Time Magazine Archive
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