tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post4875513478827598109..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Netanyahu Promises Israeli Voters - There'll Be No Palestinian State On My Watch.The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-84726613624760138452015-03-16T14:31:43.787-07:002015-03-16T14:31:43.787-07:00Thanks for the info and the link. You might rememb...Thanks for the info and the link. You might remember that Harper was just fine when Australian John Howard also "lost" the election but was able to claim power via a coalition. <br /><br />What bothered me most was how duplicitously our media parroted Harper's claim that a coalition here would be unconstitutional, some sort of a coup. It was blatantly untrue and yet they freely disseminated his lie.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-5318617344487573722015-03-16T12:21:58.822-07:002015-03-16T12:21:58.822-07:00Recall that Harper had said that losers do not get...Recall that Harper had said that losers do not get to form coalitions; http://www.ctvnews.ca/losers-do-get-to-form-coalitions-constitutional-experts-1.519108 <br /><br />Let us remind Harper of that if Likud does get the second highest number of seats but then refuses to relinquish power by forming coalitions with other right wing parties.<br /><br />BTW, Mound, on another topic, polling. Did you see this: http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2015/03/14/a-voters-guide-to-political-polling-in-this-2015-federal-election-year/#.VQcp_fJFB9A ? <br /><br />This is what it says about self selecting, online panels: "By opting in, panelists may provide pollsters with a detailed profile (such as age, gender, income, employment, locale, and even banking and shopping preferences) that can then be used to build samples for particular surveys. This is a great tool for doing targeted market research but is problematic when trying to survey public opinion at large.<br /><br />"Most of the companies doing Internet surveys claim that they can do sleight of hand with statistics to fix the fact that they don't actually have random samples. And they can't," says Krosnick. "There's actually no way to do it."<br /><br />Thus even when the online surveys claim that they have selected "randomly" from their panels, they clearly still have not performed random polling and their results would not be truly representative of the public response.<br /><br />Pity that so many in our MSM (e.g., Andrew Coyne, who had quoted the G&M claim that the Angus Reid online panel survey indicated 82% "public support" for Bill C-51), are either ignorant of this, or are too lazy to educate themselves on the dubiousness of the online panel methodology.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com