It’s August and Corporate Research Associates is in the field.On Tuesday, Ed Joyce told the people of Holyrood, Isles aux Morts, and Jackson’s Arm that they would each be getting new fire trucks.No, Ed didn’t deliver a new fire truck to each community….
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Oil and polls #nlpoli
Two things for Tuesday after a monster snow storm. Oil: Brent crude hit a low of $52.50 before rebounding to finish Monday at just below US$55 a barrel. Newfoundland light, sweet crude trades at Brent prices. West Texas Intermediate was even lower. It settled at $43.88 with global production staying
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The provincial government headquarters offices in St. John’s will be closed on Wednesday for the annual St. John’s regatta. There won’t be any news releases most likely. But so far, there have been three working days in August, the same month when Corporate research Associates will be in the field,
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November is polling month in Newfoundland and Labrador. Corporate Research Associates goes to the field for its quarterly omnibus and marketing poll. Historically, the Conservatives have skewed their public communications to the four times a year when CRA was collecting data for public opinion polls that the company will release
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The way things go in Newfoundland and Labrador, you can sometimes think that some things only go on here. Not so. Take a short trip, if you can spare a second, to Manitoba and the riding of Brandon-Souris. The editor of the Brandon Sun published an e-mail last week that
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By now you’d be living in a cave if you hadn’t heard any news of the latest Corporate Research Associates poll. The NDP are slightly ahead of the Tories and both are about 10 percentage points ahead of the Liberals. More people want Lorraine Michael as Premier than want Kathy
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Public opinion changes. Individuals don’t hold exactly the same attitudes about things throughout their entire lives. That’s true of how the typical man or woman feels about clothing styles, cars, movies, books, politics, or just about anything else. Not surprisingly in a society like ours, there are people who want
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With a tip of the hat to Gerry Rogers and Andrew Parsons, here are some posts from the SRBP archive that all bear on the current political mess in which the provincial Conservatives find themselves. “Playing the Numbers” (August 2006) One element of the program involves aggressively pushing out their
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[Almost Immediate Update at the bottom] Why do they do it? People keep asking why the provincial Conservatives spend so much time and tons of public money goosing the VOCM question of the day in the way that supports whatever the Tories are supporting at the moment. It is a
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The Telegram’s Saturday front page story on Tory efforts to manipulate online polls and comments garnered two equal and opposite reactions over the weekend in that political echo chamber called Twitter. [The story isn’t free. it’s in the online subscriber edition] Some people got into a lather over it. Some
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Talk about putting on the full court press to try and squeeze out every favourable bit of commentary for a project that remains mired in controversy and doubt. Nalcor is running a couple of days of media trips – free of charge – to the falls itself where Nalcor has
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Apparently, your humble e-scribbler got on Steve Kent’s nerves. The Conservative politician and his friends have been bombarding Twitter and Open Line shows since the middle of July will all sorts of their old poll-goosing tactics. So yours truly has been re-tweeting some of the little comments with an added
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The townie Tories are all a-twitter over federal Dipper leader Thomas Mulcair’s endorsement of Sheilagh O’Leary for mayor of Sin Jawns in the next municipal election. On Monday, reporters asked Premier Kathy Dunderdale about Mulcair’s comments. Here’s a bit of what she said, via CBC: "I don’t know how somebody
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I suggest that the members opposite do the same and they encourage our representatives in Ottawa to do the same, because the only time we hear from them is on Open Line shows here in Newfoundland and Labrador. Premier Kathy Dunderdale, Hansard, March 22, 2012 Kathy Dunderdale was making fun
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Regular readers of these e-scribbles will know that the quarterly Corporate Research Associates poll is cause for nothing if not a fair bit of derision. They aren’t polls anyone should use to judge anything serious. They are just a marketing device for CRA. Nonetheless and despite seven years of solid
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Headline on a news release issued on Wednesday by the provincial government: Budget 2012 Investments Will … And in the first paragraph, you get this line: Budget 2012 will allocate $1.4 million… So if they can announce some budget details in February, they can release the rest of it, too.
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“Run government like a business” is an old line. Some people use it as a rallying cry for success and innovation. Others think of it as a recipe for disaster. Regardless of which side of that argument you come down on, you can sometimes find value in applying ideas from
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Corporate Research Associates November 2011 omnibus: If a provincial election were held today in Newfoundland and Labrador, for which party would you vote? Progressive Conservative Party 60% CRA August 2011 omnibus: If a provincial election were held today in Newfoundland and Labrador, for which party would you vote? Progressive Conservative
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On October 3, Liberal leader Kevin Aylward issued a news release in which he claimed that the second MQO poll released the Friday before had been “bought and paid for by the Tories.” In the release, the Liberals also claimed that “[t]he Dunderda…
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Corporate Research Associates president Don Mills is criticising his professional colleagues for their use of online surveys to conduct opinion polling. CRA uses telephone surveys. In two election polls released in September, MQO reportedly used a comb…
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