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Old 11-20-2012, 11:58 AM   #204
Slava
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Originally Posted by PoliSciStudent View Post
Grenier has shown he can be quite accurate when polling is right. Polling in the US were correct, polls in Canada have been wrong. How was Grenier suppose to predict a large PC victory when polls showed the Wildrose in the lead?
Well it definitely is a "garbage in, garbage out" scenario. The thing is that he was also wrong looking at the federal campaign as well. A large piece of that is that the US is way more data rich than what we see up here, but it also makes using these polls that much more futile.
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