Come in, spinnerThe election is upon us, and the pundits are already saying it will be a close affair. The pundits have been saying all manner of things, and like necromancers and tea-leaf diviners, it doesn’t matter if they’re wrong, for there they’ll be, at the door, next day, with a new elixir. But certainly the polling industry is now in total disrepute, and really, there is no excuse.Many years ago, a properly selected, i.e. representative, survey of 2000 people questioned could deliver a f…