It is a test of opinion ahead of next year's presidential election.
Local elections are a major test of public opinion - but can they tell you who will win the next general election?
These elections were always going to be seen as the first real test of Dutch public opinion on the Netherlands' future relationship with Europe.
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Saifuddin Bantasyam, a law lecturer who directs the Care Human-Rights Forum, an Aceh-based group, thinks the province could become a test case of international opinion.
In every test so far of activist opinion, the small minority which does the work of stuffing envelopes and knocking on doors has backed Mr Duncan Smith.
Mr McConnell went on to say that it was right for the City of Edinburgh Council to test public opinion in the city through a referendum.
If you take a rough average of the 25 opinion polls since June 2007 to test the referendum question (although the question itself has varied over time), the average in favour of a Yes vote is 49.88% - still 17 points ahead of the No vote, but nowhere near the comfortable majority that Yes campaign strategists would hope for.
As well as an agonisingly close contest of opinion, the second ballot will be an unusually stiff test of the voters' dedication.
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To test these results, I scanned the Twitter accounts of several news outlets and their opinion pages to see just how many men and women they follow.
Contrary to prevailing opinion the range wasn't the crucial point from the perspective of the test customers.
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In my opinion, if management had started with a region, or a number of test stores in a variety of locations, it would have learned a lot about how to price the merchandise and communicate with its customers without losing many of those valued shoppers to competitors.
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