2018 Ontario Polls

Also:

The Post Millennial has been provided a series of polls from three firms.

All three highlight the following:

A massive increase in support for the NDP largely at the cost of the PCs.

While the first poll(EKOS) is public and posted below the other two are not, but will be released within the next two days.

We are confident that all three firms including Forum research, and Mainstreet will show the projection largely in line with EKOS.

https://www.thepostmillennial.com/leaked-poll-ndp-in-ontario-take-massiv...

Well, the election is only 2 weeks from today, and a 10 point lead, with all the momentum and both opponents facing huge problems, a collapse is possible, but not likely. Horwath's campaign has been running very smoothly, and getting plenty of good press. While the margin could be cut below 10%, it's hard to see how the NDP could fall out of first place in the next 2 weeks.

Regarding the 2015 federal election, the NDP did indeed have a nearly 10 point lead in the polls, on August 24 (although some of the polls included in that day's average were questionable). From there they fell quickly and by September 1 there was a near 3-way tie. That continued until September 23, when the NDP began their terminal decline. The Cons and Libs continued to battle closely until October 8, when the Libs began pulling away. By 2 weeks before the election, the NDP was already in an unrecoverable third place. The details can be seen here. It is a little hobby project I did after the election. I explained what it does in this thread.

My apologies to NR for raiding his polling threat.

I will try to apply the napoleonic wars for the struggles of the NDP coalition vs imperial Liberals .  

The great lose at the Battle of Wynne in 2014, the Liberal generals and support staff were known as tip top experts in there arts of strategy.  In 2014 General Wynne a little known pesronality was appointed to lead the imperial forces.  As the battle formations were formed the imperial general staff the found a curious thing.  The left of coalition forces formation was understrength.  Acutally the coalition formation under General Howarth followed the advice of her general staff which was best known for tendency of careerism that should have been retired long ago.  Immediately Wynne started by ordering a general attack across the formation.  Followed by sending in her reserve elite imperial guardmen cavalry into the weakened left of the coalition forces.  The left collasped in less than an hour and imperial cavalry was threatening to encircle the coalition position.  Wynne's general attack on the centre and the right had been effective in pinning down any help for those positions.  Seeing a disaster in the making Horwath sent the order for general retreat.  The retreat was choatic but some order was achieved preventing rout and saving most the army from capture.  Howarth was allowed retain her position.  But as history will show that Horwath will trumiph in 2018 and her Waterloo.  But is not the end of the story as coalition forces were fall into total defeat under General Muclair 2015.  But that is another day as i need sleep.

Forum won’t knock anybody’s anything off.  A 15 point NDP lead, if that’s what it is, is just as ridiculous as their 16 point Conservative lead in the federal race.

According to the Forum poll, the NDP are now leading in every region of the province and in every age group except the 65+.

You can expect every attack in the Sunday televised debate to be directed at Horwath. It's the last major chance the Liberals and PCs have to do damage to the NDP if these numbers are anywhere near accurate and other polls are in the same ballpark. What comes after the debate will be MSM "full examination" of Andrea and the NDP but this is likely to meet with limited success if Horwath does reasonably well in the debate. Overcoming the momentum of the NDP and such a large lead would be very difficult, without a grand faux pas by Horwath, and she has been remarkably good and steady throughout the campaign. 

http://poll.forumresearch.com/data/960e2f63-dc00-4efa-be0a-f6b00f99ce88H...

bekayne wrote:

https://twitter.com/2closetocall/status/999958360597278720

Ok there is something really weird with the numbers from @ForumPoll . It seems the raw, unweighted results are 40% PC and 36% NDP. But once weighted this becomes 33 to 47% Those are crazy weights!

https://twitter.com/2closetocall/status/999956924283084800

Hey @ForumPoll am I reading this right? In your sample, there were 342 respondents for the Conservatives and 307 for the NDP? Is that pre-weighted raw counts?

It isn't at all weird.  Say in a 300 person population 100 people are between 20 and 40. 100 are between 40 and 60. The rest are over sixty. 

The polling company polls 30 people. 5 are between 20 and 40. 15 are between 40 and 60, and 10 are over sixty. 

Idealy the poll would capture 10 of each category but it didn't so the results have to be calibrated. The weight of the 5 people between 20 and 40 has to be doubled. The votes of people 40 to 60 have to be reduced in value by a third. 

Of course it is much more complicated than that. Results are sifted by lots of different criteria to arrive at a prediction. The method of polling factors in too. 

NDP 37

PC 33

L 23

http://www.onpulse.ca/blog/ndp-leads-by-4-as-final-debate-looms