Pollsters’ Corner: Week 3 of the 2008 Federal Election - The Globe & Mail
Excerpt - “In chaos theory we see how very small initial events can produce huge changes to the dynamics of complex systems. While the mathematics for exploring butterfly effects in political systems is generations away, we get the feeling that there could… [More...]
Pollsters’ Corner: Week 2 of the 2008 Federal Election - The Globe and Mail
Excerpt - “The most remarkable conclusions to date are obvious, but quite different from the wisdom going into the campaign about how it would unfold. Recall that a month ago, we had seen a highly stable political landscape with the Liberals quite… [More...]
The growing ideological no man’s land - The Globe and Mail
Excerpt - “Frank Graves, president of Ekos Research Associates, which does in-depth polling in Canada and the United States, said he does not find the same trends across the border as he does here. “Americans are much more ideological than Canadians. They tenaciously hold on… [More...]
Pollsters’ Corner: Week 1 of the 2008 Federal Election - The Globe and Mail
Excerpt - “First, we want to congratulate The Globe and Mail for their innovative and insightful politics hub. We don’t, however, agree with the conclusion that the Conservatives have escaped the first week of the 2008 election campaign “unscathed”. Frankly, we think… [More...]
Pollster Frank Graves, who has been surveying Canadian attitudes toward the mission since it began, says Afghanistan is the issue Canadians most associate with the Harper government. “It’s the visible face of the government,” he says, “and an issue rife with strongly held views, division and polarization. [More...]
Turns out, Liberals aren’t doing much to feed Canadian photographers, either - The Ottawa Citizen
Excerpt - “Ekos is using “Interactive Voice Recognition” — that is, automated calls — to sample about 1,000 people each night and fold their numbers into three nights of results. Respondents punch numbers on their phone
Who’s the Man - The Toronto Star
Excerpt - “Canada certainly doesn’t have what polling veteran Frank Graves calls the U.S.’s “psychologized cult of personality.” Voters are no more than passingly interested in leaders’ families or how, where and why they got their start in politics, a.k.a. public service.
[OTTAWA – September 18, 2008] Our cross classification of how 2006 voters are intending to vote today (see “Retention Rates – A Deeper Analysis” at www.ekoselection.com) yielded some very interesting insights about the state of the current campaign. In
[OTTAWA – September 16, 2008] The Tories are once again in majority territory, which is much more significant and impressive than the majority position they enjoyed at the outset of the campaign. The electorate have weighed and considered this possibility, and it no longer appears to be having the same deleterious impacts on Tory support that we have seen in the past (and in the first week of the campaign). [More...]
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