Episode #4 - What a difference a poll makes

This week on The Writ podcast:

In the news

* Nova Scotia goes to the polls on August 17.

* The immediate threats to Annamie Paul’s Green Party leadership are dropped.

* Mark Carney isn’t running.

Polls of the week

* Angus Reid Institute: No Liberal landslide here.

* Nanos Research: Trudeau hits 40% on Best PM.

Questions and answers

* What are the Conservatives’ prospects in Quebec?

* What explains the divergences in the polls?

#EveryElectionProject

* The 1928 British Columbia provincial election.

* Sources: British Columbia’s Premiers in Profile: The good, the bad and the transient by William Rayner, Duff Pattulo of British Columbia by Robin Fisher, The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1927-28 and election-atlas.ca by J.P. Kirby.

If you have any questions you’d like me to answer in next week’s episode, leave a comment below, tweet me or send me an email. Thanks for listening!

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thewrit.ca/subscribe