{"id":65752,"date":"2017-02-02T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/?p=65752"},"modified":"2017-02-02T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T12:00:05","slug":"the-pollcast-does-leadership-race-polling-mean-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/the-pollcast-does-leadership-race-polling-mean-anything.html","title":{"rendered":"The Pollcast: Does leadership race polling mean anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">CBC\u00a0Pollcast<\/a>, hosted by CBC poll analyst \u00c9ric Grenier, explores the world of electoral\u00a0politics,\u00a0political polls and the trends they reveal.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Kevin O&#8217;Leary is the favourite for the Conservative leadership, says one poll. Only he can defeat Justin Trudeau, says another. A\u00a0majority of Canadians aren&#8217;t familiar with most of the 14 contestants in the running, according to a third.<\/p>\n<p>But do these polls tell us much about who will actually win the Conservative leadership race?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Maxime Bernier leads Conservative leadership\u00a0fundraising<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Podcasts: <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Subscribe to the CBC\u00a0Pollcast\u200b<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While most leadership race polling takes all Canadians or supporters of a party as its sample, in the end the only people who will cast a ballot in the upcoming Conservative and NDP leadership votes are party members.<\/p>\n<p>A small and dwindling portion of the population, members are difficult for pollsters to find \u2014 so the potential for pollsters to gauge a leadership race correctly is limited.<\/p>\n<p>And it isn&#8217;t much easier for those in the midst of a leadership campaign.<\/p>\n<p>To discuss the challenges of polling a leadership race, as well as the role of the media in reporting on these polls, host \u00c9ric Grenier is joined by Paul Adams, associate professor of journalism at Carleton University\u00a0and David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full discussion above \u2014 or <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">subscribe to the CBC\u00a0Pollcast and listen to past episodes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Paul Adams<\/a>, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">David Coletto<\/a> and <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">\u00c9ric Grenier<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/grenier-pollcast-adams-coletto-1.3960405?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBC\u00a0Pollcast, hosted by CBC poll analyst \u00c9ric Grenier, explores the world of electoral\u00a0politics,\u00a0political polls and the trends they reveal. Kevin O&#8217;Leary is the favourite for the Conservative leadership, says one poll. Only he can defeat Justin Trudeau, says another. A\u00a0majority of Canadians aren&#8217;t familiar with most of the 14 contestants in the running, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-65752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}