Blog Bits
The Hive quotes from the Wall Street Journal on how Obama is adopting Bush’s policies. He’s gone to the centre on gun cuntrol, on wiretappaing and now embraced faith-based initiatives. He’s also defended General Petraeus, started to embrace free trade and welfare reform.
We await Obama’s announcement to stay in Iraq and invade Iran.
Frog Blog has a copy of Labour’s script for responding to questions in the House from National:
- Attack National for hidden agenda
- Talk about how bad things were in the 1990s and how most problems today stem from that
- Comment on the questioner’s intelligence or physical appearance
- Shake with outrage at having one’s authority questioned (Some minsters can pull of this act better than others)
- Change the topic
- Insult Gerry Brownlee
- Await a patsy from the back benches where you get to laugh at something stupid a National Party MP said at some point in their history.
- Try a little bit more outraged shaking.
Therese Arseneau at TVNZ asks and answers the question of how reliable are opinion polls:
Labour says a 95% confidence interval means one poll in 20 may be a “rogue poll”. This term is misleading. A 95% confidence interval simply means one poll in 20 may produce a result outside the stated margin of error – and it could be just 0.1% outside. But the chance of all three polls being outside at the same time is more like 1 in 8,000 – statistically possible but highly improbable. …