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And all the loyal SRBP readers who haven’t voted in the Best Political Blog category can still do so.
Click here.
When you are done there, you might sample these top 10 posts from last week as selected by the readers themselves:
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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:
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The top stories as chosen by SRBP readers:
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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How do you know Peter MacKay lied about the helicopter flight?
When PMSH stepped in to defend him he said nothing about the “training flight” story MacKay started with.
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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:
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In the rush of the uber-exciting election, your humble e-scribbler forgot to post the September stat porn list.
Consider this your bit of exciting information during an otherwise dull voting day.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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