After protests from sellers in Quebec, irate over sales lost to smugglers, Canada relented, slashing taxes dramatically.At this point, opinions diverge.
So what happened to that 22-point opinion poll lead he had in the summer of 2008?
Ordinarily, a nine-point opinion poll lead on the eve of the Tory party conference would be champagne cork-popping news for the Conservatives.
Renzi had previously hesitated to challenge Bersani, a former communist politician who threw away a 10-point opinion poll lead in the February 24-25 election which left Italy in political deadlock.
But since the strike the gap has narrowed to eight points: opinion polls showed a similar lead before the Maastricht vote.Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Denmark's Social Democratic prime minister, whose ragbag coalition was unexpectedly re-elected in March, stoutly defends the Amsterdam treaty.
Colour coding is as follows: Red points (opinion of the article), green dots (agents who are satisfied with the article), blue points (agents whose opinion is outside the medium tolerance interval), and light blue background (conflict regions).
Mendonca & Johnson, (1994) Questions such as seeking explanation and comprehension check, explanation of unclear points, opinion and content, restatement, suggestion and grammar correction.
When he delivers his "Talking Points" opinion, he is mature, measured and often makes a lot of sense.
Item-responses are coded on 9-point opinion scales (ranging from "not at all" to "very much")[ 23].
Every question can be answered with the following options and corresponding scores: very satisfied (100 points), satisfied (80 points), no opinion (60 points), dissatisfied (40 points), and very dissatisfied (20 points).
Her campaign last summer against the more impressive Gerhard Schröder, the Social Democratic (SPD) chancellor, was calamitous, as she frittered away a 20-point opinion-poll lead to finish with a smaller share of the vote than the losing centre-right candidate, Edmund Stoiber, leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party, took in 2002.
