Comments on: Aoun Polls High. Where's The Catch? http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/11/17/aoun-polls-high-wheres-the-catch/ Blogging Lebanon since 2005 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:11:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JAS http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/11/17/aoun-polls-high-wheres-the-catch/#comment-8496 JAS Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:43:43 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/11/17/aoun-polls-high-wheres-the-catch/#comment-8496 So…one of the few news media outlets sympathetic to Aoun discovers in a survey that the demographic of its readers are mostly pro-Aoun. News Flash: Mother Hen And Her Chicks Found In Same Nest So…one of the few news media outlets sympathetic to Aoun discovers in a survey that the demographic of its readers are mostly pro-Aoun.
News Flash: Mother Hen And Her Chicks Found In Same Nest

]]> By: TAC http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/11/17/aoun-polls-high-wheres-the-catch/#comment-8495 TAC Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:24:06 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/11/17/aoun-polls-high-wheres-the-catch/#comment-8495 Moustapha, You say "They all for some strange reason pit Aoun against many other candidates" I can't see what you find strange, they are not "pitting" Aoun against anyone! They are just listing all the candidates. Which is the simplest if not the only possible way to do it. If March14 do not chose a single candidate what do you expect the people conducting the poll to do? Usually you take the first two among all of the candidates, and move them to the final stage, but i suppose that's not fair to our case so how do you chose the second candidate? You suggested Lahoud, someone will suggest Harb and another other will suggest jeajea, how is albalad is supposed to decide? I think the only valid criterias for a decision are: "chose the second highest" or "chose the candidate M14 adopts as their only candidate". Unless you want Al-Balad has to chose Aoun vs Ja3ja3 one week then Aoun vs Lahoud the next then Aoun vs Harb the next ? Now that would be pitting Aoun against all of the others... Moustapha,
You say “They all for some strange reason pit Aoun against many other candidates”

I can’t see what you find strange, they are not “pitting” Aoun against anyone! They are just listing all the candidates. Which is the simplest if not the only possible way to do it.

If March14 do not chose a single candidate what do you expect the people conducting the poll to do?

Usually you take the first two among all of the candidates, and move them to the final stage, but i suppose that’s not fair to our case so how do you chose the second candidate?

You suggested Lahoud, someone will suggest Harb and another other will suggest jeajea, how is albalad is supposed to decide?

I think the only valid criterias for a decision are: “chose the second highest” or “chose the candidate M14 adopts as their only candidate”.

Unless you want Al-Balad has to chose Aoun vs Ja3ja3 one week then Aoun vs Lahoud the next then Aoun vs Harb the next ?
Now that would be pitting Aoun against all of the others…

]]> By: Mustapha http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/11/17/aoun-polls-high-wheres-the-catch/#comment-8494 Mustapha Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:46:48 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/11/17/aoun-polls-high-wheres-the-catch/#comment-8494 Marielle, Albalad is one of the few newspapers that is sympathetic to Aoun. But that's beside the point. The other polls come from Assafir, from Tayyar.org and from the pro-Hezbollah <I>Beirut Center for Research and Information</I>. They all for some strange reason pit Aoun against many other candidates , instead of say, conducting a poll where one has to chose between Aoun and Nassib Lahoud only. PS: I never said Shiaa voters. I said Hezbollah supporters. Marielle,

Albalad is one of the few newspapers that is sympathetic to Aoun. But that’s beside the point. The other polls come from Assafir, from Tayyar.org and from the pro-Hezbollah Beirut Center for Research and Information.

They all for some strange reason pit Aoun against many other candidates , instead of say, conducting a poll where one has to chose between Aoun and Nassib Lahoud only.

PS: I never said Shiaa voters. I said Hezbollah supporters.

]]> By: marielle http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/11/17/aoun-polls-high-wheres-the-catch/#comment-8493 marielle Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:14:28 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/11/17/aoun-polls-high-wheres-the-catch/#comment-8493 after all he always wins in the polls, let it be scientific or not. and by the way , al-balad is pro-march 14, which means that most of the readers are march 14 supporters, so why didnt you take this into considaration although you counted all the votes for Aoun as chiaa suporters,based on what u had this assumption, coz i didnt see anywhere in the poll asking about the sect of the voter. by discrediting the poll please try to use more objective analysis, otherwise your opinion counts nothing same as this poll. after all he always wins in the polls, let it be scientific or not.
and by the way , al-balad is pro-march 14, which means that most of the readers are march 14 supporters, so why didnt you take this into considaration although you counted all the votes for Aoun as chiaa suporters,based on what u had this assumption, coz i didnt see anywhere in the poll asking about the sect of the voter.
by discrediting the poll please try to use more objective analysis, otherwise your opinion counts nothing same as this poll.

]]> By: Leb Christian http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/11/17/aoun-polls-high-wheres-the-catch/#comment-8492 Leb Christian Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:45:17 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2007/11/17/aoun-polls-high-wheres-the-catch/#comment-8492 Excellent point Excellent point

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