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17 December 2011

The Traffic the Grinch couldn’t Steal #nlpoli

Muppets, lawyers and politicians.

Problems in the fishery, bad grammar and blatant political patronage.

Just another week in the live action edition of the National Midnight Star, otherwise known as politics in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Last week’s top 10 most read posts at SRBP:

  1. A bad week for Penashue
  2. Change in the fishery
  3. The Crowd in the Dark
  4. Globe and Mail goes American
  5. Danger:  Lawyer at Work
  6. Muskrat Falls deal will succeed:  Nalcor boss
  7. Ball takes over as Liberal leader
  8. Connies pork up offshore board
  9. A grain of salt
  10. Yes, it IS a Muppet movie, ya wingnut

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10 December 2011

There’s no changing the channel traffic #nlpoli

The top stories as chosen by SRBP readers:

  1. The problem with the Liberals (post by Craig Westcott)
  2. Muskrat Falls Friday Trash Dump
  3. The truth hurts
  4. Emera buys NL line service company
  5. Margin of error defined
  6. Dazed and confused, Muskrat proponents version
  7. Speech writing
  8. “…particularly hypocritical…”
  9. We’re sorry – Scouts Canada
  10. The price of hydro exports

Someone said recently that the Muskrat Falls story is over, that people need to change the channel and get on with something else.

The only people who think that way are people who back the project.

The more other people learn about the project, the more those other people oppose it.

That’s why the people who back the project want everyone to stop talking about it.

This week’s traffic bears out the continued interest in Muskrat Falls.

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15 October 2011

Election Week Traffic #nlpoli

The ballots are in and counted.

People are still trying to grasp the enormity of what happened

Next week, SRBP will have a series on polls during the election.   We’ll look at the polls themselves, compare their findings with the actual results, tackle the comments by Liberal leader Kevin Aylward, and look at the way the local media used polls.

If that isn’t enough for the election junkies out there, we’ll also turn attention to some of the issues connected to the historic low turn-out in last week’s general election.

We’ll take a closer look at the NDP and Liberal campaigns and the seats they won plus there’ll be the usual collection of comments about and observations on public life in the province.

There’s always lots to chew over at SRBP.

In the meantime, to keep you going, here are the top 10 stories SRBP readers were poring over last week:

  1. Here’s what an opposition party looks like
  2. Globe and Shitemail
  3. The Morning After the Night Before
  4. Williams set to offer comms director plum patronage job
  5. The way not to change
  6. She can’t handle the truth
  7. Whom the gods destroy
  8. Motivation and demotivation
  9. A house divided
  10. What does sanction really mean?

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08 October 2011

Pre-Thanksgiving Traffic #nlpoli #nlvotes

T’was the week before voting and all through the province everyone was looking forward to a feed of turkey on the weekend.

And before they headed off for the feed, they took the time during the week to read these posts, making them the 10 most-read posts at ye olde e-scribbles:

  1. Telelink releases campaigns only independent poll  (As it turned out, Environics released one later in the week)
  2. Muskrat Falls support plummets:  poll
  3. What if they gave an election and nobody came?
  4. Environics releases second indy poll of the campaign
  5. The Imaginary Centre of an Imaginary Universe
  6. The Revolutionary Years
  7. The Placeholder Election Revisited
  8. Do debates matter?  Part Deux and The Mug’s Game
  9. CBC torques poll coverage
  10. Political Advertising

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01 October 2011

Traffic for Election Week 2 #nlvotes #nlpoli

Traffic patterns are information that can tell you something.

The most popular post in this second week of the election is about an alternative for Muskrat Falls.

The next most popular was about the Conservatives’ major campaign message in this election:  vote the right way or your grandchildren won’t know what pavement is, except in old movies. 

It should tell you something that Danny Williams at least slapped his candidates on the wrist when they mentioned the connection between voting and government money.  Kathy Dunderdale, by contrast,  is slapping candidates on the back.

The third most popular post is about the same subject, in this case Tom Rideout’s warning that the Conservatives will likely pay a price for their orgy of pork-barrelling in the run-up to the election.

The fourth one is also about Muskrat and the option the provincial government and Nalcor didn’t bother to explore.

The rest are about the debate and a bit about the campaign.

Take what you will out of that, but there is something in the fact that traffic here is on the swing up steadily and the four top stories are what they are. 

  1. Classical gas
  2. Keith Russell:  Panic!
  3. Whodathunkit?
  4. My work here is done
  5. The Twitter Conundrum
  6. Do Debates Matter?
  7. Taking your brain out of neutral
  8. It’s unanimous:  more of the same
  9. The Petroleum Trigger Point
  10. Disconnect

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17 September 2011

Traffic without Danny Rolls

Danny Williams had no roll in this week’s traffic.

No buns.

No loaves either.

But as it turns out he had a big role in the posts that went to the top of the week’s list of the 10 most popular scribbles.

Just like he had a big role in pushing Liz Matthews as vice chair of the offshore regulatory board.

And that’s the top post from last week.

  1. Williams set to offer comms director plum patronage job
  2. The first big political story of the campaign
  3. To you with affection from Danny
  4. An ex-Premier scorned
  5. Dipper candidate screwed by Tory election law mess
  6. The Popeye Algorithm
  7. @cbcnl using Nalcor lobbyist as election commentator
  8. Privacy commish sues Dunderdale gov over “political” e-mails on gov comps, phones
  9. Good to the last vote:  Grit version and The Arrogance Factor
  10. Good to the last vote:  NDP paints own caricature

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