That is a load of crap, you should be working in hollywood with that imagination,, plzzzzzzz

The only way I’d trust the results is if EVERYONE was polled, or if you had a select group and asked those same people for their views from month to month. Think about how pharmaceutical do clinical trials on drugs. You don’t give pick ten people, give them the drug and then months later ask another group of people if they had side effects! No, you focus on that same group and follow them. The same thing should apply to polls.

I know statisticians and the like will disagree with me but sorry, I’m just using basic common sense here. We do all these polls and then when election time comes we’re amazed that the results weren’t in line with the polls. Well, unless every single registered voter participates in the poll, you will never be guaranteed the result you expect.

Having said that, the story is yet to be written for the PLP too. We are two years and a bit away from the next election so we don’t know what’s going to happen with that group. Lord knows they still haven’t given us any reason to like them either.

Where do you stand on their birthrights?

They are now prepared to re-engage with the green and white and consign the OBA, their anglo support base and the black surrogates who front for them back to the opposition benches.

The real majority is getting ready to re-assert itself once more.

The best poll is a general election! Until that happens there is no point.

51% PLP in touch with Bermudians to 26.3% OBA
32% OBA trust with the Economy to 29% PLP
50.9% Michael Dunkley to 48.9% Marc Bean
72% oppose Independence
Oh, and 74% overweight

I can’t wait for the next poll result?

75% St. George’s for Cup Match?
68.1% Bermudian as next person to walk on moon?

These polls are so inconsistent; I believe the 407 registered voters polled were drunk at the time.

“so Sir you favor OBA to handle Bermuda’s economy, and you favor the Leader of the OBA but would vote for PLP?????
Typical Bermudian voter actually.
lol

If you look at when Bermuda began running into trouble economically, you will see a trend that started around 2008, which is consistent with Global trends, but heh, let’s not discuss facts and relationships, unless they make the OBA look like the savior.

Let’s look way back in 1998 when UBP members and supporters who, in my honest opinion, used their stereotypical mindset and kept trying to sell to the people of Bermuda that if PLP win the election, Bermuda will become like “Jamaica” basically implying, that everything will be terrible, companies will leave, the dollar will loose value, etc etc etc. On what basis did they have to make these assertions if the PLP had never been the Government up to that point?. I tell you what it was, it was a stereotype that portrays the vision that a certain demographic of people aren’t good at running business, or handling money, or making sound economic decisions or running a Government without being corrupt.

Then came the PLP into Government, and contrary to the trend of thought that was portrayed prior to the election, the Economy began to expand, more companies came to our shores along with more expats who where needed to fill positions at these companies. But, of course, “that was because of all the hard work that the UBP had done during their time, and the PLP where only benefitting from their previous policies”.. Being honest, there was a bit of truth in that, but the PLP didn’t get any credit for continuing to keep the economy growing and passing legislation that attempted to spread the fruits of this booming economy amongst a greater number of Bermudians, as opposed to a select few.

Then came 2008, and the global economic bubble began to burst, and Bermuda, whose two largest sectors of International Business which are Reinsurance and Investment Companies, began to fill the pinch. The directors and top management of many of these companies where forced to look at ways to cut costs to compensate for the downturn profits being made in the various stock markets around the world, as their main goal is to Maximize Shareholder Wealth.. Let’s not forget that. With that being said, many of these companies began to outsource certain functions of their companies to other jurisdictions, where they can get services done for cheaper, which is no different from what companies like Apple and others do as far as manufacturing..

However, some people, who already held the belief that the PLP will ruin anything that was good, based on their own opinion of the world, finally had a bone to bury.. These persons finally had a valid point to support their stereotypical thoughts.. That was it, “I told you those guys can’t handle money, I told you they can’t run a country” yada yada yada.

So no matter what was really behind these companies leaving Bermuda, as far as Anti-PLP persons was concerned, it was only a matter of time..

So here we are today.. The plot thickens.

Sort of like what your forefathers were fighting for not so long ago. SMDH!

Look for the grape vine first.

“Since the lowest point for those that supported the PLP [41.2%], is greater than the high point for those who supported the OBA [37.8%] statisticians would say that the result is statistically significant. Statisticians would also say, in this case, that had all 40,000 voters participated in the survey, they would be confident that the majority would have supported the PLP over the OBA.”

No – statisticians would be confident that the plurality would have supported the PLP over the OBA. NOT the majority. It’s incredibly likely that it would be a majority, but you cannot say that with statistical confidence.

It was a recipie for disaster.

The PLP of today chased out the only person left with any financial sense (Terry Lister). The economic pedigree in today’s PLP is shockingly low, yet a worrying percentage of the population would feel a-OK handing them the reigns to Bermuda’s once again.

I am not anti-PLP, but I am anti-stupidity, and to vote in today’s PLP as he stewards of the Bermuda economy just worries me. Sorry, but I don’t feel comfortable with fresh-out-of college David Burt in command of the public purse. The OBA isn’t all that, believe mr, but Bob Richards, at least, has experience.

Look at the comments for my proof.