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BIG BLUE WAVE (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Says JJ : Re-reading SUZANNE's post, it's clear she's missing the point -- the issue isn't whether a CPC MP's brother runs a polling firm. The issue is that an Anti-abortion MP's very likely equally anti-abortion brother conducted a poll for an anti-abortion organization -- a poll conducted by an ideological ally automatically has no credibility.Legitimate pollsters are expected to be non-partisan,...
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Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Please to appreciate the irony of someone who, just last year, crowed publicly about freeping the shit out of (and thereby rendering utterly valueless) an online poll now presuming to lecture the rest of on the unimpeachable integrity of polls . You just can't make this stuff up, can you?
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Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Dear SUZANNE : Let me try to explain this whole KLR Vu fiasco to you in words of 2 syllables or less so that your tiny little mind can actually process what I’m saying. Canada [oops – that’s 3] is a democracy [I know, I know] . In a democratic [my bad] nation, all people are entitled [sorry] to their own opinions [this is harder than I thought] . What they are most definitely [who knew I used so many...
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Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Since SUZANNE is adamant that we keep talking about "the poll," I have some trivially direct questions for her about "the poll." SUZANNE makes the following claims , for which I have precisely the same question in each case: Over 157 000 households were contacted. How do you know that, SUZANNE? There were 13 000 respndents. How do you know that, SUZANNE? They were weighted for geographic density--...
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Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Blogging Tory and totally batshit crazy fetus fetishist SUZANNE continues to lie pathologically : So they investigate and find that they don't like the people who commissioned and conducted the poll. Um ... no, SUZANNE, you utter douchebag, that's not the issue here. The issue -- as JJ and others have explained in horrific detail -- is that the aforementioned polling company has no credibility whatsoever,...