12 Replies to “Spin That Poll!”

  1. Nothing could demonstrate better why the Citizen is becoming Canada’s best daily for balance and investigative reports and the Vancouver Sun continues to stagnate. Van Sun’s receeding readership, and resultant depressed payroll, only seems to attract every untenured poli-sci Menshevik to its editorial staff.
    Whenever I vacation in BC I make sure I buy a Sun to wrap the salmon in or strart the fire. 😉

  2. Par for the course. I’ve seen the same stupid spins on polls over the years. Like I’ve said in the past, the MSM will always downplay Tory rises in the polls and upplay falls in the polls while for the Liberals they do the opposite.
    It’s all in the interest of fooling the headline glancers into believing the Tories are either falling into a hole or going nowhere. Or believing the Liberals are gaining support if they’re up just one point in one poll. And when the Libs are stalled, the MSM says their support is “rock-solid” or something. Never would they say that for the CPC.
    MSM… blah! I’d rather watch the Simpsons or something or read Mad Magazine.

  4. I’ll say it again, these polls are an absolute waste of space and time. Don’t forget to vote on January 23rd, that’s the only poll that counts.

  5. Other possible headlines…
    “Liberal Support Stagnant”
    or
    “Two-thirds of Canadians Reject Liberals”
    I use the Vancouver Sun to start the fire. It is a sensationalistic tabloid full of editorial opinion not news (but there is always a US celeb on the front page…)

  6. I wish I knew what the hell to make of it?
    Ipsos: has it Liberals-33, Conservatives-32
    SES:(they had it right last election) Lib-39, Con-29
    Gregg: liberals-33, Conservatives 30.
    so is the difference 1.5 million votes 40,000? anybody?

  7. Derek–
    Maybe SES had it right in the last election, but how predictive were the polls four weeks out of that election? I mean, what do the polls really mean this far from the election date, especially since they’re polling all adults, not likely voters?
    I guess I just don’t see it. I really think the Conservatives have a much higher level of support (or at least the crawling-on-broken-glass-two-miles-in-a-snowstorm-so-I-can-vote support). We’re motivated. That’s not reflected in the polls.
    That said, I still read them like a cheap addict.
    So, anyone seen any polls that takes Toronto out of the Ontario equation? I really don’t care what happens to Toronto’s seats; I care about all the others.

  9. Geesh �this is embaressing. Sure the media is biased � but in your search for ANYTHING to prove this, you make yourselves look like morons. The story of this election is whether or not the Liberal government will remain. The only party that can change this is the conservatives. Do you HONESTLY expect the headline to read: �Liberals fail to gain ground� against who?! You really don�t help our cause by your lack of understanding.

  10. Karl, with all due respect, I think it’s you who doesn’t understand. It’s been proven over a long period of time day after day that the MSM is biased. You just need to take more time to watch and think, think, think to see the pattern which will be proof of bias of the MSM. Gotta broaden the mind and use it as much as one can.
    BTW, you spelled embarrassing wrong. Betcha you’re embarrassed now?

  11. When looking at these polls, you have to look at the questions asked. A couple weeks back I saw a poll that had about 15 questions, the final one being who would you be voting for. The first two questions related to Alberta’s oil wealth and whether they should be forced to share such wealth with the rest of Canada and whether such wealth was harming Confederation. WTF does Alberta’s wealth have to do with the election other than trying to create a wedge and steer the poll participant towards voting anything but Conservatives (who for some reason are associated with Alberta)? There is only one poll that matters.

  12. Canadian Sentinel:
    “Wrong” is an adjective. You are using it to modify the verb “spelled”. The last paragraph in your post above should read:
    BTW, you spelled embarrassing wrongly. Betcha you’re embarrassed now?
    I bring this up only to show that we all make mistakes, particularly when posting something on the fly; there is no need to pick nits on grammar, spelling, and punctuation in each other’s comments.

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