0 the study of elections and voting statistics (= numbers): --
Students of psephology will recall that the opinion polls before the 1992 election were inaccurate.
Psephology is the study of results and other statistics relating to elections (especially with a view to predicting future results).
There exists substantial overlap with disciplines such as psephology and, as far as the text of successfully enacted legislation is concerned, legal informatics in general.
Psephology uses historical precinct voting data, public opinion polls, campaign finance information and similar statistical data.
Over the last 15 years the industry has had more commissions, committees of inquiry, investigations and publication of facts than any other industry, except possibly crime and psephology.
We then assume that their psephology is tainted by their political colour.
We are not even in the realm of psephology, which is an inexact science.
All that may be good psephology, but it is poor patriotism.
That is in the nature of the psephology of the situation.
