These polls may mean very little objectively but they’re crucial for a FF recovery. The party’s USP after all is that they’re winners which s why their poor performance at the last election threatened to derail them for good., The point of FF is that it wins elections and distributes goodies just as the point of FG is that it is not FF. I think one reason we’re seeing so much coverage of polls is that many people were uneasy with a political landscape which was so unfamiliar and left the possibility of SF for example breaking into the old two and a half party dominant system. For such people a FF return is greatly reassuring and by focussing on these polls, with their enormous amount of don’t knows which means that the actual FF preference isn’t that different from the one at the last election, they hope to make a self fulfilling prophecy.
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