Public opinion polls now dominate election media coverage: pollsters may cloak themselves in lab coats and scientific process, but there are serious flaws in the process

Two days before the last federal election, the main front-page headline in The Globe and Mail read: "PM's majority on razor's edge." The subhead was: "Campaign's biggest poll finds Liberals in danger of minority status."

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