The results of this poll by the pollster for the provincial government’s energy corporation show numbers well within the margin of error for the poll and as such, don’t reliably show any change at all from the results the company released in the first week of the campaign.
The Tories lead with 44%, a change of 2% of last week. The NDP are at 27% up from 23%. The Liberals are at 11% 13% * down from 16% with undecideds at 18% down from 20%.
The margin of error for the poll remains ridiculously high at 4.6%.
Don’t expect the conventional media to report the connections between the pollster and Nalcor, nor should anyone to report accurately on the figures and what they mean.
Instead, they’ll take the misleading approach favoured by CRA and MQO, pollsters for the provincial government and its energy corporation, and ones that fit a narrative they created before the campaign started.
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*Copying error: 13% is the figure in the MQO news release as the percentage of decided respondents who chose Liberal.