Nik Nanos (The Pollster)

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Nanos-Policy Options Poll - Immigration as Nation-building (Video Blog Post) (2008-06-06)

• Hi larryl - Nik here (the pollster) - Read your note. Personally, pollsters are more likely to get in trouble with their analysis than their numbers. As to...

The Bernier Resignation - Is it more than political "eye candy"? (Video Blog Post) (2008-05-30)

• Parnel - Nik here (the pollster) - I am going to ask you and MRM to tone it down. There's no constructive purpose to negative personal attacks. NJN
• MRM - Nik here (the pollster) - I am going to ask you and parnel and larryl to tone it down. There's no constructive purpose to negative personal attacks. NJN

Afghanistan Vote and the Issue Environment (Video Blog Post) (2008-03-14)

• Parnel - Nik here (the pollster) - You've been very active in our online political conversation but I have noticed that your tone is increasingly getting per...
• Mark - Nik here (the pollster) - You've some interesting and substantive posts but please refrain from making negative personal comments about other particip...
• MRM - Nik here (the pollster) - Thanks for the posts and the note. I will add this to our mix of potential topics on our next survey which will be later in ...
• Mike - Nik here (the pollster) - Let's try to continue to focus on the content of the discussion. Cheers, NJN

What will be the impact of the Cadman affair? (Video Blog Post) (2008-03-09)

• MRM/Parnel - Nik here (the pollster) - Let's try to keep things civil between the two of you. Ok? Cheers, NJN
• Parnel/MRM - Nik here (the pollster) - Let's try to keep things civil between the two of you. Ok? Cheers, NJN
• Nik here (the pollster) - In case others were wondering, I believe a "schill" is a European pike-perch allied to the wall-eye. Cheers, NJN (P.S. - if it's s...
• Nonpartisan - Nik here (the pollster) - Not a problem but I did think it was droll to call someone a wall-eye....thanks for the clarification and the typo fi...

Election fraught with risks - Nanos Ballot - Lib 33, Con 31, NDP 19, BQ 10, GP 8 (2008-02-08)

• Hi Blossom - Nik the pollster here - First, thank you for your interesting posts and also your kind words. I find in my experience, each radio host has diff...

Too many election risks (2008-01-22)

• Hi Canuck - Nik here - Although you are an active participant in our conversation, it is inappropriate to make posts which are discriminatory against any gro...

Canadians are remarkably optimistic (Nanos Mood of Canada Poll) (2007-12-12)

• Nik here - I would agree - the dim economic news from the US and the market slump over the past few days is likely having a dampening effect on the mood. Th...

Harper Tories Should Tread Carefully on Elections Canada Issue - Nik's Sun Media Column (2007-09-10)

• Hi - Nik (the Pollster) here - Thanks for the posting. I actually wrote this weeks ago but Sun Media controls the roll-out of my column submissions. Cheers...

Conservative NASCAR Sponsorship – Likely more risk than political payoff (2007-06-21)

• Ouch - That's harsh.
• Nik here - Hollinm - I would prefer not to revoke your privileges within the group but if you question my integrity and do not have a sense of common courtes...

New SES Research Poll - BQ supporters would Tilt to Tories and NDP (2007-04-17)

• Nik here - Thanks for the post and the comment. I've never seen this line of questionning before. Unfortunately or fortunately we are all limited on the re...
• Nik here - Thanks for the post and the comment. I've never seen this line of questioning before. Unfortunately or fortunately we are all limited on the resea...

SES Research Poll - Comfort with Harper Majority - Support/Opposition to Election Call (2007-04-12)

• Nik here - Stephen Harper can request of the Governor General that an election be called even without a vote of non confidence as Chretien did three years in...

SES Research Poll - Best PM - Harper 42%, Dion 17%, Layton 16% (2007-04-10)

• Nik here - This is part of our regular tracking and we released the poll through the Sun Media Chain so this is an absolutely clean read. Regarding your com...

New SES Research Poll - Likely Impact of Federal Budget on Harper and Charest in Quebec (2007-03-19)

• Nik Here - kwlawson - It's very important that we all remain civil in our community. This particular comment is not substantive. I know you like to mix it ...

The Green Party: Political Force or Political Phantom? (2007-03-04)

• Nik Here - Another factor to consider in our discussion is that the major TV networks will have a major role in deciding as to whether the Elizabeth May will...
• Nik Here - Hope all is well. We can try more than a topic a week for a while to see how it goes but I figured I'd just be sending people too many notificati...

SES-University at Buffalo Poll of Canadians and Americans - Americans Keen on Co-operation with Canada (2007-02-26)

• Hi Bernie - Nik Here - Thanks for your note. I was also quite struck by those numbers - considering I am the originator of the research. This is the second...
• Hi Again Bernie - Nik Here - All the stats are posted in the Support Materials in the box on the right. I try to include all the detailed stats SES has on a...
• Hi Bernie - I've responded to your question in the discussion thread below Blossom since she echoed your question. When you have a moment take a look. Chee...
• Bernie - Nik Here - Sounds like a great idea for a topic in our group - the influence and role of the media in politics. Cheers, NJN

Influence of Quebec Provincial Election (2007-02-20)

• Another thing to consider is the $350 million promised to Quebec last week by the Harper government for the province's environmental plan. It might be a sma...

Harper Scores on CPAC-SES Leadership Report Card (2007-02-12)

• Hello Tom - Thanks for the note and the question. In my experience these types of measures have an accumulation effect - they are positively or negatively ...
• Tom/Mike - Thanks for the note - We were doing a software update on my blog site which had a bug...I've just received a note that it has been fixed. Cheers,...

Federal Dead Heat - SES Research Poll Completed February 8 (2007-02-09)

• Nik here - Westerner...thanks for your note....as you might expect...I have a personal bias in favour of the SES numbers. :)

Watch, Rate and Comment on the New Conservative TV Ads which Attack the Liberals (2007-01-31)

• KWL - I would like you to be more respectful of the opinions of others. NJN

National Political Scene - Year in Review - What are your predictions for 2007? (2006-12-27)

• Ken - Nik here - Another factor on the Liberal side of the equation is Gerard Kennedy. I think the combination/tag team of Dion and Kennedy could have appea...
• Hi doralh - Nik here - The fiscal imbalance could be a tricky issue for the Harper Conservatives on two fronts. They have to make sure that it does not seem...

Should RCMP Commissioner Stay or Go? (2006-12-06)

• Well....that was a short topic. I think many Canadians were surprised at how quickly this developed. It will be interesting to see what the next steps are....

Impact of new Liberal Leader Stephane Dion (2006-12-02)

• Rob - Although I value your views and the views of all, it's important that we are courteous in our dialogue. I hope that your CAPS LOCK was stuck and that ...
• Blossom - Thanks for the note. I did start a discussion thread on the Senate but there was not as much interest there as other topics. Today I posted a p...

Who has the best chance to defeat Stephen Harper? (2006-12-01)

• Guys - Thanks for your postings....but in this particular space our chat is about who has the best chance against Stephen Harper. Cheers, Nik
• Nik again - Once the Liberals have selected a leader I would like to see a blog topic on what you are talking about. I want to build up to that. I think we...

Liberals Withdraw 'Quebec as a Nation' Motion (2006-11-29)

• Nik here - There's quite a bit of chatter at the Liberal Convention about the "Nation" issue. The Liberals were looking at recognizing "Quebec" while the Ha...

What Canadians like and dislike about the Liberal Party of Canada (2006-11-23)

• Robert - Thanks for your note. We asked the same type of question on Chretien's legacy and also why people were comfortable or uncomfortable with the concep...

Federal Tories-Grits Statistically Tied - Tory Turbulence in Quebec (2006-11-16)

• Hi Mathilda - I have just added to the support materials our polling which compares how people voted in the 2006 Federal Election to whether they would be mo...
• Nik here...thanks for the note. The challenge is that we have sub-samples for some provinces that are too small and they could be quite misleading - would b...
• Nik here - based on my experience it is rarely one issue or event that moves opinion but the cumulative impact of a number of issues that either erode or bo...
• Jason - Nik here....the only real solution is to do more robust regional samples (bigger). I find in my experience in the rare occassion I reported on a sma...
• New Stats - Ballot by Gender.....More potential turbulence for the Conservatives. I've taken a look at the ballot by gender and it looks like the Conservati...
• Jan - I would add something else...Canadians reward political leaders who are consistent. I find in our polling that Canadians don't really expect to agree ...