Tories lose crucial ground with women, Quebecers, Ontarians, poll suggests
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests the federal Conservatives have lost key support amongst women, Quebecers and Ontario voters.
The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey indicates the Tories and Liberals are tied at about 31 per cent of national support.
The telephone poll of just over 1,000 people suggests the Tory government lost ground with strategic groups during the last session of Parliament.
The poll suggests the Liberal advantage among women living in cities has increased to 10 percentage points over the Tories from five since December.
In Quebec, the poll suggests Tories lost a 15-point lead with voters who say they're neither federalist nor separatist - and are now tied with the Liberals.
And in Ontario, it indicates Conservative support has dipped outside the greater Toronto area and especially in the 613 area code.
Pollster Bruce Anderson says the Tory numbers may rebound now that Parliament is on summer break.
The poll was conducted June 26-29 and is considered accurate to within 3.1 percentage points 19 times in 20.
The government has seen its share of recent gaffes, including the security breach that forced Maxime Bernier to resign as foreign affairs minister.
3 comments:
funny how it does not mention ndp...I know Gregg hates ndp but they must have somekind of count...have tried to find pdf but nowhere...this poll...since it comes from cons anderson and gregg...tells me the conservative are in the dumps...bigtime.
needs more polls to verify. So the Liberals get more woman votes then the Conservatives, and this is news?
Polls are completely meaningless until there's a writ dropped and people are actually paying attention. Even then they are dubious.
Should say, "People who answer landlines who may or may not vote would split evenly amongst Liberals and Conservatives. Conservatives get more support from Men, Liberals Women. We give ourselves an A- within 3.1% 19 times out of 20."
Meaningless tripe. It's meaningless tripe when the Conservatives are at 39% too.
re: "And in Ontario, it indicates Conservative support has dipped outside the greater Toronto area and especially in the 613 area code." .. a glimmer of hope that the people of the Ottawa Valley will finally start making sense and possibly NOT re-elect Cheryl Gallant. She makes me embarassed to be from Pembroke. :(
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