You can travel the country. You can speak to hundreds of people in 32 seats over six weeks. And then in the end, your gut feeling is completely outclassed by just getting the computer to deduct three from the Labour score and add three to the Tory one.
Yeah, it's hilarious that I came fairly close to the exit poll just by using the FT's ready reckoner and going 'fuck it, just deduct three from Labour and add to the Tory score from the poll average'.
