{"id":48126,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/48126/?format=json","text_counter":335,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"These opinion polls are designed to represent the opinions of a population by conduction of a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in relation or within intervals. There has been a history of failures of opinion polls the world over. The best known failure today was in the United States where there was a prediction that Thomas Dewey would defeat Harry Truman in the 1948 US presidential elections. That never came to pass."}