Tribune just how in the hell did you come up with your journalistic definition of “close?” Yesterday’s advanced voting exist polls placed the PLP with a solid 55% to the FNM 's 31% limbo level.
Tribune ya ain't suppose to be adjusting your own internal polling which has the FNM at 62% with the PLP at 24% to reflect the General Elections outcome ya working your butts off in the faint hope of winning power back for your friends in the FNM regime. Who is to be believed? For my money I’m going put my trust on the real results taken from the natives voting yesterday. Best you stop sniffing on that funny mind-altering press ink. The FNM going down and there is nothing your ink can say that will change their fate.

Boy, boy, boy. .. when the stats are in the FNM's favour it is all lies but when it's in the PLP favour, it is then the gospel truth

You certainly do make the rounds on these boards.Exit polling has proven to be no more reliable than pre-election polling and, in some cases, has been even further off the mark.Noways..all these polls are manipulative and beyond the actual truth.

Look, this whole story is ridiculuos and the reporter should be fired. Out of 8000 potential voters, they spoke to less than 200- and the reporter actually thinks the results are worth a grain of salt? It is to laugh at, so that's what I'll do. Ha, ha.

Agreed

I would love to see some accurate polling done in the Bahamas, but seriously? Does this reporter know ANYTHING at all about how to conduct an accurate poll? The sample sizes are WAY too small to have any statistical meaning. To say nothing of the fact that an advance poll is not a representative sample of the population. (In this case, it would represent some of the most highly motivated voters as well as a few specific professions). No control was put into place for age, gender as well as for who the voter supported in previous elections. Honestly, the Tribune should be ashamed for putting this out and suggesting it has any meaning at all.

Calling this an exit poll is close to if not exceeding the bounds of responsible journalism. C'Mon Tribune.

Just remember too that FNM's are quite a bit more classy and controlled than others so don't expect them all to tell you who they voted for. PLP's on the other hand, well ... they have to publish who they vote for so they can collect ...

And I overlooked the fact in the article that this poll was conducted for only 4 hours. WTF? A properly conducted exit poll is done from the polls open until they close. And Jerome Gomez all ova da radio talk show sayin da exit polls have predicted that he will win Killarney. I really think the Tribune needs to do a follow up story explaining that this exit poll is a complete farce. Unbelievable...unthinkable!

Hold off on that one Comrade Cc cause the Tribune must first take timeout to deal fairly with all the farces the been unashamedly pedaling for their friends in the wretched FNM regime. How come no FNM blogger ever question the Tribune's own internal polling which has the FNM lending the PLP with something like 75% of the votes to be cast? Talk about using your ink for fantasy writing.

No one questioned it because it was an online poll, which already suggests its 50 % level of accuracy. But when you are talking about a live poll with actual voters, it is very easy to be accurate if you want to be. Why did they stop after 4 hours, and din't continue throughout the day? Why didn't they use a larger sample? With 7000 to 8000 voters, surely their sample size could have been greater than 200. It was done inaccurately, because that's how they wanted it to be done. Bottom line. As for all of the online polls and text polls the FNM has already won- they may be 50% right, and 50% wrong.