Reply #9: Not smart of the NDP, at this point, imo

[Spazito]

Force Canadians to go to the polls in January isn't going to please Canadians and fingers will be pointed to the NDP. That will give the CONs a better chance than they would have if the NDP lays off until after the final Gomery report.

BTW, Strategic Counsel is suspect as a polling organization, imo. Here is an interesting article about their polling methods from the last B.C. election:

"On the Friday before the tightest provincial election facing British Columbia this decade, Canada’s most influential newspaper published dramatic poll numbers that appear to be based on biased methodology.

“This is unethical,” Vancouver pollster Angus McAllister told The Tyee. “The Globe and Mail ought to be responsible enough not to publish a poll where the ballot question is preceded by 14 questions that influence people’s answers.”

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The Globe’s poll asked 14 questions before inquiring how respondents planned to vote.

“If you’re really trying to find out where people stand, you don’t want to ask them questions that will lead them in any one direction,” observed Steven Rosell, who is a partner to highly respected American pollster Dan Yankelovich."

http://www.thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2005/05/16/GlobePollUnethical/print.html



The Globe and Mail is now using Strategic Counsel exclusively which is interesting in itself.