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Showing posts with label polls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label polls. Show all posts
08 December 2016

Poll numbers not very comforting #nlpoli

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A little over a month ago,  only about 16 or 17 percent of respondents told pollsters they thought Dwight Ball was the best choice for Premi...
23 March 2015

Budget ignorance abounds #nlpoli

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The provincial government’s own economics and statistics agency conducted a telephone survey for the budget consultations this year.  The...
29 October 2014

The October 2014 NTV/MQO Poll Numbers #nlpoli

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NTV commissioned NTV to poll opinion about the provincial Conservatives a month after Paul Davis took over as Premier. The party choice n...
04 September 2014

Voter Choice #nlpoli

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When Kathy Dunderdale jumped or was flicked out of office in the first part of 2014,  CRA boss Don Mills issued a release covering his compa...
31 October 2013

Liberals gain from NDP crisis. Tories no change. #nlpoli

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The headline is as dramatic as NTV could make it: Leadership crisis sends NDP tumbling to third place in NTV/MQO poll The numbers lo...
07 September 2013

The Importance of Appearing Earnest #nlpoli

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Once upon a time, not so very long ago,  your humble e-scribbler noted the importance the provincial Conservatives placed on the appearance ...
17 June 2013

Montana Time #nlpoli

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Both CBC provincial affairs reporter David Cochrane and Telegram editor Russell Wangersky had opinion pieces this weekend telling the pro...
16 May 2013

Self Skew-ered #nlpoli

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Two thirds of tax filers in Newfoundland and Labrador report incomes of less than $35,000 per year. The Harris-Decima poll released by th...
01 February 2013

Tories at 30% #nlpoli

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Local pollster MQO released some previously confidential polling data on Thursday that showed the ruling Conservatives were getting about 25...
05 December 2012

Your Future is in Their Hands: impacted poller #nlpoli

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David Brazil,   member for Conception Bay East-Bell Island, on how he and his political colleagues approach the task of governing: Mr. ...
03 December 2012

New Politics, Polls and the Media #nlpoli

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Given that the local media missed the single major story of the 2011 provincial general election until after it was over,  the editors and ...
11 September 2012

The sum of all fears #nlpoli

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Kathy Dunderdale says that it is gratifying to have the support of the majority of the people of the province, as recent polls show, accordi...
07 September 2012

Who wants to play Brutus? #nlpoli

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Just as they ate up the Corporate Research Associates’ quarterly poll when the numbers favoured the local Conservatives,  the local media ha...
21 August 2012

The Permanent Echo Chamber of Horrors #nlpoli

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To borrow a phrase from Quebec Premier Jean Charest the other day, Twitter is a conversation between apparatchiks and journalists.  That’s ...
17 August 2012

The politics of gas price fixing #nlpoli

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Gas prices used to be a hot political topic in Newfoundland and Labrador.  A lot of people thought that the provincial government could do...