British pollsters failed in the increasingly difficult struggle to get it right

By Michael Barone

Published May 13, 2015 10:27pm ET

British pollsters failed in the increasingly difficult struggle to get it right — "The world may have a polling problem." That's the headline on a blogpost by Nate Silver, the wunderkind founder of the fivethirthyeight.com website. (AP) | Nam Y. Huh

“The world may have a polling problem.” That’s the headline on a blogpost by Nate Silver, the wunderkind founder of the fivethirthyeight.com website. It was posted on 9:54 Eastern Time the night of May 7, as the counting in the British election was continuing in the small hours of May 8 UK Time.