Don’t trust Brand X’s poll
I've been following the Coeur d'Alene Press poll all day to see if the pollsters were playing fair. At first, it looked like they were. But something funny has happened in the last hour or so. Let me explain.
At around 11:30 a.m., the poll on Hagadone's proposal to convert the western end of Sherman Avenue into a garden showed 57.5% opposed, 42.5% in favor. With 442 votes cast, that would mean 254 respondents were against and 188 in favor.
When I checked again a few minutes ago, the poll was almost the opposite, with 55.3% in favor and 44.7% opposed. With 580 votes cast, the actual numbers would break out to about 321 in favor, 259 opposed. In other words, if the poll is to be believed, 133 of the last 138 votes cast were in favor of the project. Impossible.
I'd say someone from HQ got wind of the results going against The Duane and made a call to the Press to fix the numbers. Someone needs to pass this blog item along to the City Council.
DFO