As you know, psephology is the formal study of elections, apparently trivial but dripping with deep, dark paradoxes. |
Tactical voting is a dangerous game, especially when based on dubious psephology. |
I find such candour rather endearing, but have learned to mistrust my own reactions as psephology. |
The numbers 99, 88, and 22 seem to belong to some system of mystic psephology, Or gematria as the Kabbalists afterwards called it. |
It therefore seems appropriate to preface this book with a discussion of why elections merit study and an examination of how much has been or can be learnt from psephology. |
Projections by Professors Rallings and Thrasher of Plymouth University, the rock-stars of local election psephology, are a reliable benchmark. |