Comments on: Tories not as popular as media would have you believe

By: Ken Furber

Ken Furber — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:41:21 +0000

Hey Paul:
Welcome back.
This information sort of puts an exclamation point to something I’ve been saying for several years now. Contrary to popular belief (read: right-wing rhetoric) the media isn’t left-wing centric. Actually because it’s big business media companies tend to favor the Conservatives and unfortunately that’s reflected in their election coverage, including polls. I was on vacation in BC when the Environics poll came out and I almost broke my son’s TV is disgust.
Do you think this sort of scewing of voters actual intentions will work in the long run? Even if it doesn’t it sure shows Harper’s backers have a poor opinion of voters.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:19:32 +0000

What’s significant is that the Conservatives have still lost more popularity (since the last election) when compared to the Liberals. According to Wikipedia, the Conservatives won 5 seats by a 1% margin, and another 4 within a 2% margin. So these figures could mean a loss of close to a dozen seats for the Conservatives.
What’s more, you are comparing the present polling number to the actual vote in 2006, not the polling numbers, which were around 38% before the last election.

By: Nick J Boragina

Nick J Boragina — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:44:42 +0000

You are dead on when you say the tories are not up anywhere. Fortunatly for Stephen Harper, all the other parties (Bloc, NDP, Liberals) have moved since the last election, they are down.

By: janfromthebruce

janfromthebruce — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:40:53 +0000

excellent graphics. Another thing about the main stream media, is trying to make this a race between the duelling Stevens – Tweedle Dee or Dumb.

By: NDP Outsider

NDP Outsider — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:40:08 +0000

Your graphics are really cool. What would make them just that little bit better for me, would be a comparison of the last five polls with the last five polls of the 2006 election. It would be nice to compare polls to polls to votes (e.g. apples to apples to oranges), rather than just polls to votes.