Steve Goodale has written this piece for Newsgrowl, to learn and reveal why New York polling companies have not been including Howie Hawkins and Larry Sharpe in their gubernatorial polls. Hawkins is the Green nominee, and Sharpe is the Libertarian nominee. The real answer seems to be that the polling companies take orders from their news media customers as to whom to include.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
Every Poll is Different, Some Biased and Some Dry/Mathematical
Every poll is different. Te Green and Libertarian parties’ polls the whole voting system is biased against outsiders, and so names from those parties won’t help unite us Americans because those splinter parties are 100% divisive in nature, from top to bottom.
The only political party of which I am aware that treats all names, parties/categories without bias is the One Party.
Like plurality parties (Green, Libertarian, Republican, etc.), the One Party is also biased. The difference is that we require the protection of free speech liberty while all plurality parties are agaist that and their party bosses always want to pick for you instead of protecting the concept of equal time and equal treatment.
The One Party system is not perfect and so we will be totally revamping our web site ASAP:
http://www.allpartysystem.org/ib-one.shtml
OMG! Top One!
Sometimes polling firms will include a name on their survey if you contact them with a compelling reason to include the name and you ask politely.
Any polling biz have only ONE candidate for each office ???
Polling biz — part of the New Age FAKE news ???
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Any focus on the general election at this point would be on whether Nixon or Cuomo would be the stronger candidate, or which would prevail in the Democratic primary.
Especially since the Greens are a ballot-qualified party in New York, holding Row D.
Your article is very specific and detailed. It solved very quickly the problem I was having.
“Larry Sharpe is true rock star for Libertarians, and is widely considered the strongest candidate the party is fielding in any race across the country this year.”
Oh please. That would be a sad comment on the LP if it were true, but it’s not. I’ll bet right now that Larry is unlikely to exceed the average of all the other Libertarian candidates for Governor in 2018, which I’ll guesstimate as being in the ballpark of 1.5%. In contrast, the party has actual incumbents running for re-election in several races, and several others where non-incumbents are seriously viable.
I think that as it sinks in that Cynthia Nixon is not going to win the primary polling firms will start thinking about the general election more. Nixon will either withdraw from consideration for the Working Families line or she’ll stop campaigning if she winds up on it. Stephanie Miner is likely to get more attention than Hawkins or Sharpe. People like independent candidates more than they like alternative parties.
More attention needs to be paid to the relationship between campaign finance and ballot access. An independent candidate with a million dollars who needs to complete a petition drive is usually in better shape than a Green or a Libertarian with ballot access but no money.
How is they are on the ballot NOT a compelling reason to include the name in the poll? If all the people on the ballot aren’t in the poll, by definition, it’s not a valid poll.
Do the pollsters have LIE DETECTORS with them when polling ???
ie — what percent of New Age alleged voters LIE to pollsters —
to make the morons in the media (esp TV talking heads) be even more stupid / wrong —
esp on election nights.
See the TV morons on Nov 2016 Election night — about 1 AM to 3 AM EST.