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Topic: Election Prediction Project revisited
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adma
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posted 02 March 2008 05:20 AM
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Originally posted by spincycle:
Maybe something to do with the LPC's treatment of female candidates in Don Valley-West? Bulte stood down so the 'man who would be leader' would have a free ride in P-HP. Now she and Deborah Coyne have seen their hopes dashed as the LPC paves the way for another favourite son in DV-W.
Note that this thread started way back in May 2007...
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aka Mycroft
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posted 02 March 2008 07:13 AM
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Originally posted by adma:
Well, Milton hasn't bothered with any election but federal and Ontario in about five years or so. But it's still a useful place for a Friday-morning-quarterbacking buzz--maybe more so than democraticSPACE, in its funny way.
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Yes, party hacks and amateur spin doctors (some anyway) still use the site though this day blogs are preferred. My point is the day when anyone looks at EPP as a serious prognosticating tool has long passed. [ 02 March 2008: Message edited by: aka Mycroft ]
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adma
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posted 16 March 2008 01:34 PM
Re "Liberal hacks", I suspect it's singular rather than plural; and rather ineptly transparent at that--let's say, the goof makes Mike Klander look like Mike Pearson. Even the goof's non-Liberal predictions read as inside politicking (cf. the Kennedy-can't-win blab re Parkdale-High Park) or heavy-handed overcompensating trash-talk (check out Niagara West-Glanbrook or Haldimand-Norfolk; it's like those so-called knuckle-dragging rednecks are a metaphor for girl who wouldn't give him the time of day, i.e. a riding, or a Grit candidate in place, which wouldn't give him the
time of day).Worst case scenario (and I don't want to start *rumours*, mind you--even I don't want to believe it) might be that the clod's a Milton Chan plant in charge of astroturfing EPP--not that EPP (for all its yesteryearness) needed such juicing-up, and it would seem almost like suicidal guilt on Milton's part. A better/ideal case scenario is that it's a Liberal-insider buddy with a bad case of overactive testosterone and underactive brain cells, and even Milton's quietly embarrassed--after all, such bush-league antics are *exactly* the stuff to reinforce the impression that his site's an obsolete, degraded relic of Web 1.0. Sure, any display of obvious Liberal partisanship on top of Milton Chan's own affiliations might read as "party hackery" within a Babble context; but on the whole, things have balanced out even t/w the present on EPP--obvious Tory and NDP and even Green partisans have all had their say, too, and the tone's been generally civil and Voltairean. What's happening right now is more atypical than typical of the way EPP's operated all this time.
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adma
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posted 25 March 2008 04:36 PM
Yeah, and I traced one of those CL&M addresses to the St. Catharines Public Library, so that gives a hint as to where he might be posting from (perhaps explains his hoisting the banner for Lastewka, etc).I speculate there may be a heavy bit of revenge-against-his-critics involved, too--all that aliasing and multi-entering happened after I needled him thusly... Er, you didn't get my point, I'm Always Right: while they might form a sizeable and winning constituency, ‘inbreed/inbread/inbred bible belt folk’ aren't anything like NWG's vast majority. And yes, this site is about Election Predictioneering, but if you want your predictions to have any authority and grounding upon reality, there's also a finesse involved. There's no finesse in ignoring my, or Bear & Ape's, or whomever's pertinent points on behalf of convenient heavy-handed landslide predictions based upon heavy-handed demographic readings couched in heavy-handed mantras about ‘inbre(a)(e)d bible belt’, ‘rednecks’, ‘hicks’, ‘knuckle dragging right wingers’ et al. In which case, you might as well be painting Toronto/Vancouver Centre with a uniform ‘limp-wristed pansy’ brush as well. You really need sensitivity training--and not just in terms of psephological technique... Such are the perils when you tell an abusive jerk that he needs sensitivity training.
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adma
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posted 10 April 2008 04:57 PM
Yeah, he of the many sock puppets is still posting away--I copied two of his opportunistic nom de plume entries for Regina-Lumsden-Lake Centre in one of the Babble Lukiwski threads.I'm tempted to think of him as the Dimitri the Lover of election forecasting... [note: Babblers may need a strong stomach to go through the above links, you've been forewarned] [ 10 April 2008: Message edited by: adma ] [ 10 April 2008: Message edited by: adma ]
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adma
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posted 21 May 2008 04:44 PM
Latest sock puppet, "Hannah Montana". And here's a couple of doozy entries...In Essex agriculture is suffering badly from the high Canadian dollar and out of control gas prices. People in the west end of the riding who in the past drove to Windsor for high paying auto sector jobs now can't find work. What's happened is an explosion of bible belt churches in Essex as people turn to religion because they have nothing else. You'll also find a much higher than average number of hunters in this riding too. All of this makes Essex Stephen Harper country where bible belt voters are told on Sunday to vote Conservative. Jeff Watson is the ideal MP for this type of riding and will still be the MP here 26 years from now. 26 years?!? Yeah, right... And... David Sweet didn't earn the name 'Pastor Sweet’ for nothing. He is one of the most devoted old time Christians in the Conservative caucus. The Sweet family has very deep roots in the church community in Flamborough, Ancaster and Dundas and thanks to the religious vote and the farm vote, Sweet will win every poll in those three towns. The NDP will win every poll in the very left wing Westdale area that surrounds Mac U but will finish a weak third because the Liberals will end up second in the small towns and second in Westdale. Pastor Sweet will have even a bigger win in this riding than he had in 2006. Dundas?!? (among other things) Yeah, right. At this point, he's *really* trolling. Re the "Milton Chan conspiracy theory" notion, I guess it's of relevance that Milton was in Iggy's leadership camp (thus, perhaps, the hangup about Gerard Kennedy, who, after all, helped coldcock Iggy's leadership bid). And re all the obsessing about bible belters/rednecks/knuckle-draggers; well, Milton's had his personal run-ins with party neanderthal homophobes such as Paul Steckle before, so perhaps there's a kind of sublimation or letting-out-steam involved...
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David Young
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posted 21 May 2008 06:28 PM
According to the Pundit's Guide, Sue Whelan has been nominated again as Liberal candidate.Taras Natyshak is once again the NDP candidate. No (so-called) Green candidate yet, but Jim Brown is the C.A.P. candidate.
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adma
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posted 22 May 2008 04:42 PM
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Originally posted by Sean in Ottawa:
I was very interested in the election prediction project when it first came out but it really is quite useless. They do not call any of the close seats which is the point - this means the site is only worth something on the eve of an election. they do not use any methodology related to the collection of the data - they spend the energy to collect the data and then over-rule it without any explanation.
Well, it isn't like there was ever anything scientific/systematic about the data collection process--basically, what mattered (note past tense) is that it (picking up where David Savitt left off in '97) translated the idea of seat-by-seat election-predictioneering into a reasonably legitimate web-discussion-forum context, at all. Otherwise, there was as much "methodology" to it as there was to those old radio-station hit-parade surveys (i.e. the ones compiled through a mystery formula of "sales, requests, and the station's judgment of the record's appeal", or something like that). And if anything proves the pre-Y2K primitivism of the EPP formula, it's democraticSPACE. At the same time, with primitivism can come a certain homespun web-forum charm; as scientifically refined as democraticSPACE is, it hasn't been, for some reason (science cancelling out will, or simply EPP's seniority?), the same kind of magnet for armchair psephologists who want to spout off. (Note the lack or absence of comments for a lot of '07 Ontario election ridings in dS, compared to EPP.) Though maybe it will be the default spot now that EPP's being tripped up by Liberal-insider psychodrama, or whatever it is. One other interesting thing about I'm Always Right et al: assuming that he's a Milton Chan toady/wannabe rather than Milton Chan himself, and assuming he's based around St. Catharines, it's noteworthy that there's been *no* comments on his part yet re Niagara Falls--a seat where, theoretically, the Liberals could be in a relatively good position to knock out Rob Nicholson. So, if anyone out there in Babbleland knows who's who and what's what in NF Liberaldom, perhaps that may help clarify the picture...
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I see Milton isn't even bothering with the Alberta election.
