For strategists, polls do matter

Other polls matter too; they matter a lot. I’m talking about ‘internal’ opinion polls, meaning those polls, which the major political parties commission on a regular basis to plot and fine-tune their communication strategies.

OAKVILLE, ONT.—The old saying about “the only poll that matters is the one on Election Day” is actually only partially true.

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