The day before the vote

One of the sites I have been tracking is this one Northumberland--Quinte West | Vote For Environment put together by a bunch of enviros to make suggestions about the best enviro candidate in the ridings. It has a very good graph map and what appears to be an accurate predictor of future votes. Up until yesterday, and you can check this by using the dropdown box, the predictions were quite close. But the CPC has a bigger lead now than yesterday. This leads one into a discussion of how relevant overnight polling is when trying to predict future voter behaviour. Some analysts say that the polls are about three days in front of intentions as some people tend to make their minds up based on information contained in polls.

An oldie but still a goodie:
This Youtube clip, about the arts and government funding, comes courtesy of the "Sunday Star". It is taken from that wonderfully realistic sitcom, "Yes Minister". This series must be 40 years old by now and still rings true. A beautiful series about the way Government works. Too close to the bone for a lot of living pols but for us pundits dead on the button. This clip just proves that nothing is ever new.