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Hi guys,
What's the meaning of "Election punditry"? And also what is "greasy polls"?
The sentence is "Election punditry is tricky when the polls are this greasy". I can't get it...
Thank you.
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an election pundit is an expert who speaks with authority about elections. The kind of people you see commenting on TV. climbing a greasy pole is a famous comment about how difficult it is to win an election.
- an election pundit is an expert who speaks with authority about elections.
- The kind of people you see commenting on TV.
- climbing a greasy pole is a famous comment about how difficult it is to win an election.
- polls are used in conducting an election.
- The writer is trying to be amusing by using the fact that the word polls sounds like the word poles.
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an election pundit is an expert who speaks with authority about elections. The kind of people you see commenting on TV.
climbing a greasy pole is a famous comment about how difficult it is to win an election.
polls are used in conducting an election.
The writer is trying to be amusing by using the fact that the word polls sounds like the word
0So the meaning of the whole sentence is "It's very hard to comment on this elections cause the polls are greasy (?)", right?
No. It's very hard to comment on this election because the public opinion polls are hard to interpret.
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