It’s so much fun when online polls totally and absolutely contradict all the “expert” polling recently being done.
This one’s got to leave a mark. Much of the liberals’ media division’s recent polling has weirdly come up with entirely different answers, and the media has been pumping out those results ad nauseam recently. Then this.
This poll is linked to a story about the CTV and Globe and Mail’s latest poll, which also came up with pretty much the opposite result as this. Their polling company, called The Liberal Counsel Of News Media Message-Checking Strategery And Its Effectiveness On The Supideratti In Canada (or something like that**), said that Liberals were in a comfortable lead. But the LCONMMCSAIEOTSC polling firm works exclusively for liberalvision, so I cast doubt.
** As I always have to do, I checked once again and oops, in fact, the CTV/Globe and Mail’s polling firm is actually called “The Strategic Counsel”.
The LCONMMCSAIEOTSC** polling firm’s boss, Allan Gregg, a regular politics expert on the state-owned CBC and on liberalvision, once wrote in the left-wing Toronto Star:
Today, as pollsters begin to explore the differences between results obtained by telephone surveys, compared to those administered over the internet, we have empirical evidence to suggest that telephone research may systematically overstate “socially desirable” outcomes. Whether the question explores church attendance, extra-marital affairs, smoking pot or virtually any other behaviour or belief that carries a social stigma, these comparison have shown that voters contacted by telephone consistently offer a more socially desirable response than those answering the same questions (without the intermediary of another person being party to their views), via the Internet.
All of that notwithstanding, Gregg’s latest poll for liberalvision CTV and the Globe and Mail was… a telephone poll.
I don’t think the Sympatico/MSN online poll is a question of the “social desirability” class, except of course that liberals all care deeply about what their friends think, and think that voting Conservative is socially undesirable and that it gets them kicked off the cocktail circuit (and then classified as “right-wing extremists” by the Obama Administration and possibly as “racists” and/or “homophobes” by all other liberals).
Liberals always speak as though everybody in the room agrees with them. And sure enough, few of us in the silent majority bother to disagree, particularly in Canada, where disagreeing with liberals is practically banned and may land you in a “human rights” commission kangaroo court. So I know many Canadians who say they vote Liberal just to fit in. And many vote Liberal because they think that’s what’s cool. And others because they apparently think it’s the law. Online, on the spur of the moment, without the noise of campaign rhetoric or the news media’s slobbering love affair with Obama (for example), they often vote right.
Liberal strategists like Scott (“If we don’t tax it, they’ll spend it on beer and popcorn!!!”) Reid may glance at these polls, but I think it’s mostly their media division who use their polls as Counsel, and adjust their Strategic messaging accordingly in order to fit their vote liberal! “news” needs.
PTBC was founded by Mr. Johannesen in 2000.
Contact Mr. Johannesen about this article using this form. Please refer to article's title.
FOLLOW @JoelJohannesen ON X!
- Proud To Be Canadian. But Maybe Not. - Tuesday December 17, 2024 at 2:07 pm
- Say something. - Friday October 25, 2024 at 6:03 pm
- Keep going, or veer right - Monday August 26, 2024 at 4:30 pm
