On The Credibility Of Polls

This one has the McGuinty Libs and Hudak Tories virtually tied in Toronto.

And if you question the credibility, its by Forum Research who, according to their own website, conduct more than 600,000 surveys each year, or over 1,600 every day. So you know they can be trusted.

And, oh hey! This is the same company that puts Rob Ford's approval rating at 60%. But they do 1,600 of these suckers every 24 hours. They did 300 before you even ate breakfast. So who are you to doubt their authority?

h/t. PS. No, we're not married. Sometimes our interests converge. That's all.

They Get By With A Little Help From their Friends

The pollster nobody believes in the papers nobody reads.

We all know how Ipsos-Reid works--CanWest's paid samplers, hence the CPoC's paid samplers.

Just ignore them

Latest Ekos Poll

proves previous Ipsos poll crap.

An Ekos poll showed the Conservatives at 32.6 percent of decided voters and the Liberals at 30.9 percent, roughly the same as a week earlier. The two parties tied at 37 percent in Ontario, Canada's most populous province.

"This weeks's national sample of vote intention...suggests they (the Liberals) may want to think twice," Ekos said on Thursday in releasing the results.

But why? Given the efficiency of the Lib. vote etc. etc., these numbers look like a thin Lib. Minority. And, at the very least, the Ont. figure would be a marked improvement over 2008.

Go for it, sez I!

More details at Ms. O'Malley 's.

Note The Wording Of The Headline.

""X", poll says". Not "X".

CanWest doubts the validity of its own poll.

I say lets throw down in Sept. electionwise and Ignore anything out of CanWest or Ipsos. Its just another poll that nobody trusts from newspapers nobody reads.

Steve V thinks its nutz too.