One polling company may actually have called the election right.
Unfortunately, they never told anyone.
Their final poll in the run up to May 7 looks, with hindsight, surprisingly close to the actually result, a representative from the firm told a fringe at LibDem conference.
But in the end it was never released.
"As you can imagine it is not a decision we look back at with undiluted joy," he said.
Former Scottish MP Jo Swinson was candid about the vagaries of political life at the same fringe.
She recalled how in late 2013 a poll confirmed her seat was a battle between the Lib Dems and Labour.
A year later – after the indy ref– a similar survey showed the contest was now between her party and the SNP.
This led to voters who had earlier received letters saying she was their only hope to keep out Labour now being told she was .... their only hope to beat the nationalists.
“A slightly embarrassing u-turn in messaging,” she admitted. Though, she added, somewhat, if not completely, successful.
His mentor Bob MacLennan, the former MP for Caithness Sutherland and Easter Ross, described former leader Charles Kennedy’s interview to become a candidate yesterday.
He told Lib Dem members that 15 minutes had been allocated to each of the contenders.
But he found Mr Kennedy “so fascinating” that in the end they spoke to him for three-quarters of an hour.
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