Fernando 2: Liberals start Tory-style poll goosing #nlpoli
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…
poll goosing
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,…
August is polling month #nlpoli
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, …
Announce it forward #nlpoli
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…
One poll to rule them all… #nlpoli
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…
Tories below 30 #nlpoli
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…
Influence and Manipulation #nlpoli
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,…
A Record of Manipulation #nlpoli
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…
Who knows the mind of a squid? #nlpoli
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…
Talking Point Politics #nlpoli
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…
Radio Free Nalcor #nlpoli
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…
Gander at the goosing #nlpoli
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…
Don’t remind her, Tommy #nlpoli
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…
$#*! the Premier says, Open Line edition #nlpoli
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…
They who lived by the bullshit… #nlpoli
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…
Release the budget now! #nlpoli
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…
Seven Habits of Spectacularly Ineffective Politicians #nlpoli #cdnpoli
“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.…
Margin of error defined #nlpoli
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…
PPM: Controversy, Accountability and Disclosure #nlpoli
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…
An excess of chutzpah: pollster attacks colleagues over methods, accuracy #nlpoli
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…