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Pollster and Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch Newspaper, Ben Ephson has revealed that, "if this year was 2015, the ruling NDC will lose" the elections next year because people will think that the economic state of the country as become better because of elections. However, the pollster added that "two years is rather a long time in politics" and if there's improvement, the electorates will regard that one year as a "benchmark" and vote for the NDC. Uncle Ben as he�s affectionately known, was speaking on XYZ's, 'The Analyst' hosted by Kate Nkansa-Dwamena on Saturday, August, 23. In two years� time (2016), Ghana will be going to the polls to either elect another government or retain the NDC government. Elections all over the world are partly based on the performance of the government of the day. Ben Ephson said, �If this year was 2015, I would say yes [2016 is bleak for the NDC], but Kate two years in politics is a very long time. One of the things I�ve realized with past researches we�ve done, is that if let�s say in 2011, the NDC say that look, when we come to power, in five years, we�ll do ABC. NPP will say the same thing. "That means if you say that in 2011, it means in 2016, you�ll do ABC. People will not believe you because they will think that election year, you�ve allowed money to control the economy to get votes. "So if this year was 2015 and next year things are better for the NDC in terms of the effect of the economic policies, the NDC will lose votes because people will think that the economy has become better because of elections, but this is two years and if a year�s time, the economy improves and things are much better, people will take that one year [2015] as a bench mark, but two years in politics is a rather long time.� The Mahama-led administration has been bashed for a number of policies and leadership decisions that had not yielded the expected results by its detractors; GEEDA, SUBA and SADA, just to mention a few. However, government has rolled out a number policy interventions and some developmental projects in its quest to fully embark on homegrown policies like the new GCAP to check importation at the ports, the new preventive action policy introduced by the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana to flush out fake drugs, the revamp of the Komenda sugar factory following the promotion of the consumption of homegrown rice by increasing rice import duties, the 15 polyclinics to be established in two regions and the quest to set up a national airline company which critics believe would end up like the above mentioned �failures�.