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Opinion poll for IOM General Election?

Statistical model bases results on candidates social media

How the Island votes in the forthcoming general election could be predicted using a new type of opinion poll.

TwentyFourKeys.com is a statistical model which bases its results by gathering the way candidates engage in areas such as social media plus other aspects of Manx politics.

They claim to have already been successful by forecasting the outcome of last year's Douglas South by-election.

Creator Jamie Paterson's confident the poll findings will be reasonably accurate.

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