So you were campaigning for Anita in 2015. Good for you. (I've lived in that riding for 47 years.)
Polls today may well not indicate who wins in a year and a half. But politicians act as if they do. As you point out, the feds would not be acting on housing if it were not for the polls. So polls today turn out to be very important.
So you were campaigning for Anita in 2015. Good for you. (I've lived in that riding for 47 years.)
Polls today may well not indicate who wins in a year and a half. But politicians act as if they do. As you point out, the feds would not be acting on housing if it were not for the polls. So polls today turn out to be very important.
But I think that, while polls are informative for politics, they are not informative for policy. They mostly reflect the state of ignorance of those surveyed, and perhaps how to manipulate them. They do not indicate what is the right thing to do for the country (or province, or municipality). That is the whole problem with populism.
So you were campaigning for Anita in 2015. Good for you. (I've lived in that riding for 47 years.)
Polls today may well not indicate who wins in a year and a half. But politicians act as if they do. As you point out, the feds would not be acting on housing if it were not for the polls. So polls today turn out to be very important.
But I think that, while polls are informative for politics, they are not informative for policy. They mostly reflect the state of ignorance of those surveyed, and perhaps how to manipulate them. They do not indicate what is the right thing to do for the country (or province, or municipality). That is the whole problem with populism.