Sunday, May 10, 2009

On explanations

In an update to this post, I noted that Yens Pedersen's campaign had provided a correction to the timeline which appeared to apply to his call for Dwain Lingenfelter to step down from the leadership race. But I'll take a moment to highlight the update for anybody who missed when it first appeared.

Meanwhile, the Pedersen campaign has also provided an answer on the internal poll numbers which had raised eyebrows a few weeks ago. Yens confirms that the poll cited is the one which followed his automated voice message, and notes that his campaign doesn't take the results to be a statistically representative sample of NDP members.

Now, ideally that kind of disclaimer would be included alongside the poll results so that there wouldn't be any need for a clarification after the fact. But at the very least, it's for the best that there's indeed a reasonable explanation as to how the posted results were reached. And as I'd theorized at the time the poll was released, it sounds like Pedersen can at least accurately claim a fairly strong raw number of respondents stating their intention to support him.

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