More Push Polling...

I see the CPC's media mouthpiece over at Canwest Global has dropped another push poll turd in the public sphere.

Via Big City Lib's blog, we find out that

While 38 per cent of the respondents believed the Liberals would be no different, 21 per cent said the Liberals could do a better job,

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From that point forward, the article goes on to sing the praises of the otherwise abysmal Conservative attempts at "environmental policy" by claiming that overwhelming numbers of Canadians support the initiatives. News Flash for the Conservatives - some movement is better than none, but that doesn't make the movement anywhere close to adequate or creating the perception that anything significant is being done. 5% biofuel content would mean something - if it came into effect in 2008, not 2010!

As if to make the quality of this poll even more suspect, the polling firm behind it is an obscure outfit called Praxicus - someone I've never heard of. Right on their website's main page, we find Praxicus bragging as follows:

Conservative Perspective -

Praxicus is the pollster of record to the Conservative Party of Canada and the Leader of the Opposition. While this is not important to all of our clients, this position provides us a unique perspective on issues to which no other public opinion research company can lay claim.

So, your polls start off with a bias, and you're bragging about it. Jeepers. If I want polls, I want them to tell me what I'm missing, not what I expect. Oh - waitasec - Conservatives don't care what they're "missing" - they want to dictate to the rest of us what we should be thinking.