Friday, March 27, 2009

Polls matter. Democracy? Well - that depends

Newfoundland's latest mystery blogger at Orwellian Spin notes that once again the Williams government is citing polling results as justification for every policy, announcement, and line item in its current budget.

It's a tired old line trotted out on open line radio and in the comments sections and letters to the editor of the province's newspapers: "They must be right because their polling numbers are high."

So if the government's righteousness can be quantified in perpetuity "on a go-forward basis" by CRA polling results, surely the voters of Grand Bruit deserve the same recognition. After all, at 87%, their latest poll results are higher than anything Danny or Jerome could even achieve...

1 comments:

Winston Smith said...

Not much mystery, I'm afraid. I sit in front of my Toshiba notebook and type.

The hard part is keeping up with the latest antics of Dangovt. "Come to NL, watch the political circus," should be the new tourism slogan, though they'll need to add, "just don't get sick while you're here."