Over the next twenty-four hours, Labour did better than predicted, which was not very well.
Doing better than predicted is what made him a national figure, just as Eugene McCarthy became one when he won 42percentt of the vote in the 1968 New Hampshire primary.
It may legitimately do better than predicted.Mr Musharraf must hope his opponents will at least fail to win a two-thirds parliamentary majority.
Is Pat Buchanan doing better than predicted because of his views on, say, protective tariffs or because the presence of an unreconstructed, unapologetic mad-dog reactionary seems refreshing among candidates who are always positioning themselves frantically, like so many starlets jostling for flattering angles in a group shot?
See articleIn a provincial election in Quebec, Jean Charest, the Liberal premier, won a majority and a third term, but the separatist Parti Québécois did better than predicted.Mexico's Congress approved a bill to rationalise police powers, allowing undercover agents and wiretap evidence but also requiring officers to register all arrests more quickly.
The problem is that of all the prediction techniques — asking sportswriters, polling coaches, following the Las Vegas odds, and others — none does better than simply predicting that the better-seeded team will win.
57% perform as predicted, and 16% perform better than predicted.
It's a skin model that actually does better than tests on mouse skin at predicting what materials might be corrosive and irritating to human skin.
While the PS took only 23%, the party did better than polls predicted.
Mr. Milton now acknowledges that the airline is doing better than he predicted after the attacks, and he has scaled back his request for aid.
A one-day strike by air-traffic controllers caused widespread disruption to flights into the country.See article: France's government versus the strikersIn regional and municipal elections in Spain, the conservative People's Party, led by José María Aznar, who runs the national government, did better than pollsters predicted, scoring only one percentage point less than last time round, in 1999.
