People are always complaining, "Where do they get these polls? Why don't I ever get polled?"
Not a problem for me. I'm always getting polled. Which suits me fine, as I want to make sure the right-wing whacko view is accounted for. I don't mind the time, as I can usually do some work on my computer and keep half an eye on the football game simultaneously. (There are exceptions, like the excruciating half hour I once spent giving my opinions on agricultural water-management, but at least I got the right-wing whacko view out. I think.)
But yesterday was the standard political poll, on national politics, what I thought of the Liberals (ugh!) and the Alliance/Conservatives (yay!).
There was one curious thing, though. The first couple of questions concerned Mike Harris running for leader of the new Conservative Party.
I might have missed something, but about a week ago, Harris pretty well unequivocally ruled out a leadership bid, though he was widely considered one of the front-runners. What's going on here?
The way these polls are put together can include questions from any number of interested parties. You spend X thousands of dollars and you get your question or questions on the poll. So why would Harris or his people -- or for that matter, the polling company -- be interested in something that was supposedly off the table?
They could have sold that block of questions to someone else, but they didn't. Strange, strange.
My thanks to King of Fools, who has again come to my rescue. He set up my MT blog and all was fine until I discovered that I couldn't edit the templates. That is, I could change them but the changes wouldn't register on the blog.
He invoked powerful Geek Majik on it, and now I can edit to my heart's content.
Not that I know squat about CSS and HTML anyway, so I'll probably just end up stealing someone else's design.