Liberals narrow gap to 6 points in campaigns first "shift"!

[Very_Boring_Name]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/liberals-narrow-gap-to-6-points-in-campaigns-first-possible-shift/article1964548/

What a difference a day makes. The Conservative lead over the Liberals literally shrunk overnight from 10 points to just over six, according to a Nanos Research poll of voting intentions for the Globe and Mail and CTV.

According to a rolling three-day survey than includes calls up until 9 p.m. Wednesday,

[Posteritatis]

1. "Literally shrunk?" God, some journalists need to be slapped. (nt)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Right. --> "shrunk literally overnight"

[iverglas]

3. actually ...

the simple past of "shrink" is "shrank".

Sink, sank, sunk.
Drink, drank, drunk.
Shrink, shrank, shrunk.

"Literally shrunk overnight" -- Two fishhooks in one's eyes in three words, it seems. ;)

[TheCanadianLiberal]

4. How long will it hold out?

One wrong move or thing said and they could lose what they've gained. I know the liberals may be the best chance at removing harper, but I simply can not vote for the local liberal guy and will instead be voting for the Greens

[daleo]

5. I can't get too excited about polls either way

I think the polling model is broken. In the past couple years at the university I work at, the response rates for student surveys has plummeted from the 40-50% range to the 20-30% range, sometimes even lower. I suspect pollsters are having a much worse time than this. There is just too much room for response bias for the assumptions of scientific polling to hold.