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  • noun An expert in psephology

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  • noun a sociologist who studies election trends

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Either psephology +‎ -ist or pseph- + -o- + -logist.

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  • While some are ill-hidden apologists,

    And some are mystics or phrenologists,

    Their common vernacular

    Is Pompous Oracular.

    All claim to be expert psephologists.

    November 4, 2014