Revolutionary Moderation

Polls are Fun!



(Note: this entry posted by Bear)



Especially since they bear no relation to actual results in a first-past-the-post system. However, Political Scientists at the University of British Columbia have developed a method to predict election results with some degree of accuracy.



Like I said, some.



As for the British Columbia numbers in the polls Don mentions, those will turn on how close any Martinites are involved - for some of us, the words 'Christy Clark' and 'Defendant' have a really nice ring together.



At this moment, the rain is washing away the remnants of this week's winter storm. For those of you outside of the 604 who were cackling about how Lower Mainlanders handled the weather, Toronto has 600 snowplows to the 42 across the GVRD, and unlike Crazy Mel, DaVinci never called in the army.