Searching for clues in Britain's deadlocked election polls

[WorldNews]

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Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives and the opposition Labour party have been polling within a few percentage points of each other throughout the campaign, both hovering at about 34 percent support. If neither party moves ahead in the final week, then neither will secure a parliamentary majority and will have to negotiate with smaller parties in order to govern. In the 2010 election, the polls were largely accurate in predicting the Conservatives' share of the vote, but all underestimated Labour's support and overestimated the third party, the Liberal Democrats. This year one certainty is that the Scottish nationalists will win most, if not all, of the 59 seats in Scotland, up from just six in the 2010 vote.

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