Comments on: Each one, take one: opinion polls to please all

By: Not A Witty Nick

Not A Witty Nick — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:56:25 +0000

desi homosapien,

and your comment is an index of your credibility?

The Congress clearly appears to be winning Karnataka given its wide support base.

Why not! They had their trusted foot soldier governing the state and had their men in EC to draw the constituencies in their favour… why not!

By: desi homosapien

desi homosapien — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:49:19 +0000

The DRX-INS survey has given BJP more than even its “internal” survey. The internal survey of any party reflects the “best case” scenario harboured by political parties.

Will BJP get more seats than it best expected or will the DRX-INS’ credibility plummet ?

The Congress clearly appears to be winning Karnataka given its wide support base.

By: pragmatic

pragmatic — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:26:47 +0000

man…these polls are driving me nuts!

By: Alok

Alok — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:50:02 +0000

To quote a famous movie:

“[They] can’t handle the truth”

the truth here being that it is virtually impossible to predict an election in India given the size of the constituencies and the difficulty of getting anything like a representative sample size. That itself should be enough for people to stop pushing half baked statistics, dressing it up with a little mumbo-jumbo and serving it up as “psephology”.

By: Bhamy V Shenoy

Bhamy V Shenoy — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:26:28 +0000

We Indians have well deserved reputation as outstanding statisticians. Looks like these random numbers generated by different polls will tarnish our image. What a pity.

Where are our well trained statisticians? Or is there a quota for taking surveys also?

By: NS Rao

NS Rao — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:09:19 +0000

sikkidavrige seerunde!!

kila kilaa!

By: ಸುಮ್ಮ ಕಿರ್ಲ

ಸುಮ್ಮ ಕಿರ್ಲ — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:09:36 +0000

BJP internal survey: BJP 119-129, Congress 60, JDS <20

illi bjp avaru survey maDidhro athava numbers decide maDidhro gotilla.