BACK-END: Polling "Pandemonium!"

It's No Surprise that Current Polls Favor Mark Carney's Liberal Government. The Legacy Media Pays for Polls and the Government in Power Pays for Legacy Media.

An old graphic based on polling firm 338Canada data collected in March 2024 and posted in the subreddit r/MapPorn under the title, “Current Canadian Electoral Projection, Based on the 338Canada Aggregate.” Polling firms often provide graphics to media outlets to enhance and simplify their data and the conclusions they draw.

Assessing the political biases of polling organizations is inherently challenging, if only because polling organizations claim in their sales literature to produce objective, data-driven and “actionable” results.

The main customers for polling companies, at least during major elections, are major legacy new outlets, which publish the results as “expert testimony,” essentially adding a second level of authority to the polling organizations major selling point of “scientific objectivity.”

As outlined in the September 25th, 2024 Trent University prost, “Polling Pitfalls: Award-Winning Humanities Research Unveils How Data Flaws Impact Election Outcomes,” polling bia…