Scottish Independence

[Martinus]

No exit polls.

I heard differently. Are you sure?

[The Brain]

Fag fight!

[Warspite]

There are no exit polls.

[Zanza]

Lame. How can you have such a momentous election without exit polls?

[The Brain]

  Poll tax.

[Martinus]

Poll tax.

[Sheilbh]

Lame. How can you have such a momentous election without exit polls?

Apparently none of the broadcasters commissioned one

[derspiess]

Lame. How can you have such a momentous election without exit polls?

Apparently none of the broadcasters commissioned one

That's bizarre, unless there is some law in place preventing it. 

[Richard Hakluyt]

Apparently YouGov conducted an "on-the-day" poll which gave 54%NO and 46% YES.

https://yougov.co.uk/opi/

[Habbaku]

No exit polls makes things more exciting.

[Sheilbh]

That's bizarre, unless there is some law in place preventing it.

No law.

The Guardian data blogger had three suggestions:
1 - They're very expensive.
2 - When they would've been commissioned, it looked like it was a safe no victory so there'd be no point.
3 - Broadcasters don't like them. Everyone knows how to argue against a poll so it's boring TV and sometimes they can get it embarrassingly wrong like in 1992 when they predicted a Labour victory. Or in 2010 when the poll was very accurate in predicting the Lib Dems would actually lose seats, but it was so out of sync with all the other polls that they barely talked about it until it turned out to be right.

Apparently YouGov conducted an "on-the-day" poll which gave 54%NO and 46% YES.

Grindr did a poll too, 53% no, 47% yes

[Sheilbh]

No exit polls makes things more exciting.

I agree. I generally don't like them.

[DGuller]

So when is UK's disintegration going to be announced?

[Richard Hakluyt]

CNN's poll of polls gives 52% No and 58% YES 

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/scottish-independence-blog/live/2014/sep/18/scottish-referendum-results-live-coverage-of-the-independence-vote

[HVC]

CNN's poll of polls gives 52% No and 58% YES 

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/scottish-independence-blog/live/2014/sep/18/scottish-referendum-results-live-coverage-of-the-independence-vote

they got stuck on the conversion from metric.