Newt Gingrich: Lessons Learned from the British Elections

The pollsters were wrong. Again.

Last week the Tories won a smashing, upset victory, taking a parliamentary majority when they were predicted to lose even the coalition they had. In the process, UKIP and the Lib Dems were wiped off the map, and Labour was wiped out in its Scottish stronghold (by the SNP). Once again, the pollsters got it horribly wrong, as they did in the recent Israeli elections and as they've done more often than not going back at least to their unanimous assertion in 1980 that Reagan and Carter were neck-and-neck.

It would seem that much like the chattering class in general, "everyone they know" voted for Labour, the Democrats, et al. How many more might have voted Tory Blue or Republican Red if they hadn't been constantly told how pointless that was (not that any of these illustrious pollsters had such a thing in mind, of course)?

But there were other, more significant lessons from the British elections, and as usual, Newt Gingrich summarizes them exceptionally well. Please read the story below, an…