Motivation and demotivation #nlpoli #nlvotes
“Complacency is your greatest enemy in an election,” Progressive Conservative Leader Kathy Dunderdale said Sunday. “When it's hard to motivate people to become engaged to get out and to cast…
Edward Hollett
Whom the gods destroy #nlpoli #nlvotes
There's letters seal'd, and my two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd— They bear the mandate, they must sweep my way And marshal me to knavery.…
The Folly of Linear Thinking #nlpoli
New Brunswick’s David Campbell has an interesting post about the folly of believing that things go in straight lines. Like say, oil prices have been going up for a while…
Tories in hard fight in Sin Jawns seats #nlpoli #nlvotes
The whole race for second place media meme - bullshit that it always was - masked a very serious battle that’s been going on since the election started between the…
Pre-Thanksgiving Traffic #nlpoli #nlvotes
T’was the week before voting and all through the province everyone was looking forward to a feed of turkey on the weekend. And before they headed off for the feed,…
If La Romaine isn’t profitable… #nlpoli #nlvotes
An economics professor at l’Universite d’Ottawa thinks Hydro-Quebec’s La Romaine project isn’t profitable at the projected sale price to Vermont of 5.8 cents per kilowatt hour when the electricity will…
Advance voting and other campaign tidbits #nlpoli #nlvotes
If you want to get a good sense of what the advance poll turnout from Tuesday likely means in campaign terms, wander over to labradore. In the current election, six…
The Placeholder Election Revisited #nlpoli #nlvotes
Kathy Dunderdale told reporters on Wednesday she plans to seek re-election in 2015. Interesting that Dunderdale felt the need to volunteer that thought. It must be an issue people are…
Political Advertising #nlvotes #nlpoli
In the first of a two parter, John Sides (via The Monkey Cage) tosses out some observations on the impact of election advertising. This is relevant to the current general…
Environics releases second indy poll of campaign #nlpoli #nlvotes
The second independent poll of the provincial campaign – this time by Environics for the Canadian Press - turns up some interesting numbers. You’ll find them below, in a table…
Searching for Rescue #nlpoli #nlvotes
Tory boss Kathy Dunderdale and Grit boss Kevin Aylward both think that the provincial government should investigate search and rescue response times around the province and then push Ottawa to…
What if they gave an election and nobody came? #nlvotes #nlpoli
Next Tuesday, the face of the province’s House of Assembly likely won’t change very much at all. The new premier will take office following an election with what is on…
Muskrat Falls support plummets: poll #nlvotes #nlpoli
Despite a massive marketing effort by the provincial Conservatives and the provincial government’s energy corporation, Nalcor, a new poll by NTV/Telelink shows a dramatic drop in support for the provincial…
The Mug’s Game
Trying to predict seat counts based on a limited number of publicly available polls is - as PEI demonstrates - a mug's game, at best. The final tally: 22 Liberals…
Telelink releases campaign’s only independent poll #nlvotes #nlpoli
NTV and Telelink released the only independent poll of the campaign on Monday and with a week to go in the 2011 general election, things are on track for a…
The Revolutionary Years
For those who loved the first volume of Boulder Publication’s compilation of Ray Guy columns, make sure you get Ray Guy: the Revolutionary Years. The first volume ended in 1971…
Do debates matter? Part Deux #nlvotes #nlpoli
Last week ended with a wonderful bit of insight into where televised political debates figure into an election campaign. Before you go any farther into this post just stop for…
The Imaginary Centre of an Imaginary Universe #nlvotes #nlpoli
Town and Toronto start with a “T”. Some Townies can be like some Torontonians sometimes. Yes, yes. Settle down. Hold it down with the other “t” words, like twit, twillick,…
CBC torques poll coverage #nlpoli #nlvotes
Think of it as another form of poll goosing. As an example of how news media can take a piece of information and make a false statement out it, consider…
If only they knew the whole story… #nlpoli #nlvotes
The Telegram wonders why it is taking so long to install court security equipment at the province’s courthouses. The signs have been up since early January. “Public notice: Improved security…