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In France, the late rise of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a veteran left-wing politician, in the polls has turned the French presidential election into an open race just days before the first round of voting on Sunday.

Twelve months in, during which time Britain has had the Northern Rock bank crisis, a property market slump and seemingly endless rain, Gordon Brown's lead in the opinion polls has turned into a 20-point deficit.

As opinion polls have turned against the government, it has scrambled to regain popular support by ditching several policies on which it staked its claim to responsible economic management.

Actually, opinion polls had turned before the war began, helped by better economic news and by the policy of giving council tenants the right to buy their homes at a discount, which converted thousands of Labour-voting tenants into homeowning Tories.

NATE SILVER, the onetime baseball stats guru whose work on political polling revolutionised the polling business, has turned his attention to airfares.

He sought to move from a convention marked by an intense effort to reassure the party base to an appeal to a broader general election audience that polling suggests has turned sharply on Republicans and President Bush.

Education's high ranking in polls of voters' concerns has turned the normally bipartisan renewal of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act into an election-year public relations war between the parties.

Other polls have showed that the public has turned away from its antigovernment mood of the 1970s and favored a more active government and more progressive taxes.

IF YOU had asked a pundit three months ago to predict the first round of Brazil's presidential election on October 5th, the response would more or less have resembled what has turned into the polling-day reality.

In last-minute horse-trading, he accepted that ERC would stand separately from his own Convergence and Union (CiU) coalition, in exchange for its support for this year's budget, which his minority government could not pass alone.That has turned the September poll into one as much about winning power as about independence, with ERC well-placed to oust CiU as the most popular party.

An opinion poll out yesterday confirmed the Spanish public has turned against its king.