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Do Polls Work?
In an article posted on June 17, 2011 on the iPolitics website, Frank Graves, head of the polling firm EKOS , attempted to explain why his final poll failed so badly in predicting the Conservative majority in the 2011 Federal … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011 Election polls, accuracy, Bloc Québecois, Canadian Federal Election, Conservative majority, Democratic bias, false narrative, Harry Reid, Jack Layton, Liberals, media influence, NDP wave, partisan polling, poll predictions, public opinion, Republican bias, Spiral of Silence
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How Polls Influenced the Outcome of the 2011 Canadian Federal Election
Canadians gave Stephen Harper’s Conservatives a majority government in possibly the strangest election in Canadian electoral history. Conservatives ended up with 167 seats, 24 more than before, while both Liberals and Bloc Québecois were demolished with their respective leaders, Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011 election, accuracy, Bloc Québecois, Canadian Federal Election, Conservative majority, Democratic bias, false narrative, Harry Reid, Jack Layton, Liberal, media impact, NDP wave, partisan polling, poll predictions, Polls, popular vote, public opinion, Republican bias, Spiral of Silence
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Partisan polling: Is the GOP buying favorable results?
Nate Silver on his blog FiveThirtyEight examined the avalanche of polls conducted for the 2010 US midterm election and came to the somewhat shocking conclusion that certain pollsters produced biased results that favored the GOP. Specifically, he fingered the Rasmussen … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010 Election, bad polls, bias, election polls, GOP, Harry Reid, Nevada, partisan polls, Rasmussen, Sharron Angle
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Reid vs Angle: A fabricated polling event
After beating Republican challenger Sharron Angle by 5% (50% to 45%) in Nevada, the winner and still Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid complained that the polls leading up to the election were “false and misleading”. He may be right. In … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010 Election, bad polls, bias, election polls, GOP, Harry Reid, Nevada, partisan polls, Rasmussen, Reid vs Angle, Sharron Angle
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