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Netanyahu's shock re-election leaves Israel's pollsters red-faced


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By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Embarrassed at failing to predict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's election victory, Israeli pollsters said on Wednesday they were blindsided by reticent rightist voters and may have unwittingly prodded waverers to back the incumbent. Netanyahu's Likud won 30 of parliament's 120 seats in Tuesday's ballot, against 24 for the center-left Zionist Union - upsetting opinion surveys that as recently as Friday gave the challenger a four-seat lead. Exit polls also proved unreliable. Israel's top three television stations, airing first returns as voting booths closed, found the parties close or tied.

 

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