To the editor:
The recent March 18-19 Angus Reid political poll is bogus.
Some 1,540,542 taxpayers voted in the 2009 provincial election. The March 18-19 poll had a total of 809 responses.
Some 688 of the respondents said they will be voting for the NDP, and had also voted for the NDP in 2009.
A total of 809 responses are going to tell us how the province will vote in the provincial election. Nonsense!
How can Angus Reid come up with so many responses that also voted for the NDP in 2009? Are they polling equally across the province?
Polls are only polls and the true poll is on May 14, 2013.
In the meantime, if Angus Reid wants to do a more accurate poll, it has to poll all 85 British Columbia ridings, taking 1,000 responses in each riding, from the hours of 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week until the polling is complete. This is the only fair way to do a poll and keep all options equal.
Nine elections have come and gone across Canada in the past two years, and not one poll was correct. Polls done in Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario showed the opposition parties double digits ahead of the incumbent governments, and yet on election days, all incumbent governments were returned to government.
It is a known fact that some responses to polls are from people who don’t even show up to vote on election days.
Joe Sawchuk
Duncan
