Pollsters getting government contracts combined with billions in corporate media bailouts, paid internet influencers, an additional $178+ million to CBC, Heritage handouts and government advertising has been trying their best to keep liberals in power.
Btw, I was a small child in 1957 and in that era market research and public-opinion polling was still very rudimentary because so many people did not have telephones, no one ever heard of "texting", and many homes with telephones had the old-fashioned magneto sets which you needed to crank to start a call. It would have been quite easy to miss huge blocks of voters and the polls then showed that those who owned phones and were poll-able tended to vote Liberal while those without phones tended to vote PC. Public-opinion polling did not become more reliable until the 1960s when many more homes had telephones but it was still a long way from today when many people have two or more phones and you can take your phone with you as many people do. / EMC
Much ado about very little:- the CPC is still doing quite well in the polls but the Libs are doing a bit better with help from Donald Trump and the resulting collapse in support for the NDP and the BQ. The CPC is trying to hold public confidence with very big staged rallies and this is quite an accomplishment to get thousands of people out in bad weather to stand in line for an hour until the doors to a meeting hall open. The big print dailies act like private political parties to promote their own political biases but they hide behind expensive paywalls and nobody really reads them anymore:- who needs to waste scarce time listening to and reading useless cat-farting? The pollsters apply a lot of inference to tiny samples of 1,000 out of a voter base of 25+ million and they don't measure propensity for voter participation and those rallies help motivate CPC voters to actually get out and vote. The opera ain't over until the fat lady sings and the only useful poll is the one on election day:- Trump is a loose cannon who blows a big wind into Carney's sails one day and then suddenly goes quiet the next day and if he's quiet for the rest of the election the Libs might find themselves becalmed. Mr P is doing ok and much better than Singh and Blanchet despite the nonsense which some nihilistic journalists are promoting. / EMC
Pollsters getting government contracts combined with billions in corporate media bailouts, paid internet influencers, an additional $178+ million to CBC, Heritage handouts and government advertising has been trying their best to keep liberals in power.
Btw, I was a small child in 1957 and in that era market research and public-opinion polling was still very rudimentary because so many people did not have telephones, no one ever heard of "texting", and many homes with telephones had the old-fashioned magneto sets which you needed to crank to start a call. It would have been quite easy to miss huge blocks of voters and the polls then showed that those who owned phones and were poll-able tended to vote Liberal while those without phones tended to vote PC. Public-opinion polling did not become more reliable until the 1960s when many more homes had telephones but it was still a long way from today when many people have two or more phones and you can take your phone with you as many people do. / EMC
Much ado about very little:- the CPC is still doing quite well in the polls but the Libs are doing a bit better with help from Donald Trump and the resulting collapse in support for the NDP and the BQ. The CPC is trying to hold public confidence with very big staged rallies and this is quite an accomplishment to get thousands of people out in bad weather to stand in line for an hour until the doors to a meeting hall open. The big print dailies act like private political parties to promote their own political biases but they hide behind expensive paywalls and nobody really reads them anymore:- who needs to waste scarce time listening to and reading useless cat-farting? The pollsters apply a lot of inference to tiny samples of 1,000 out of a voter base of 25+ million and they don't measure propensity for voter participation and those rallies help motivate CPC voters to actually get out and vote. The opera ain't over until the fat lady sings and the only useful poll is the one on election day:- Trump is a loose cannon who blows a big wind into Carney's sails one day and then suddenly goes quiet the next day and if he's quiet for the rest of the election the Libs might find themselves becalmed. Mr P is doing ok and much better than Singh and Blanchet despite the nonsense which some nihilistic journalists are promoting. / EMC
The Liberals use the same talking points every single election:
- Abortions
- Guns
- Social programs
- Islamophobia, antisemitism and far right hate.
Then they accuse their opponents of importing U.S. politics while doing the same themselves.