This data will no doubt raise all the issues around strategic voting which may give women in particular significant leverage.
Results of a recent poll about voter intentions in a potential federal election show the following trends (amongst others), according to Frank Graves, president of Ekos, as quoted on the "ekospolitics.com" website.
"One peculiar feature of the gridlock is that the Liberals and Conservatives seem to be competing for the same voters: upper middle class white men, for the most part,"
Graves said. "If you leave aside regional patterns, which of course remain dramatic, the demographic profiles of a Liberal and Conservative voter are remarkably similar."
"Women and younger voters are much less enchanted with the two main parties," he said.
"They are more likely to support the smaller parties, or simply remain on the sidelines."
"It is quite striking that among voters under 25 years of age, the Green Party consistently shows up as a leading contender, even as it continues to be no more than a marginal option for baby-boomers."
http://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2009/07/libs-eke-out-lead-as-tories-slump-july-2-2009-2/
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HOW can the Conservatives be seen to be going for the upper middle class white male vote with their attack ads that obviously must appeal to the less educated of Canadians???
Yes, this must appeal to the rednecks and the great uneducated masses. That's their base. Also, the stay-at-home moms will feel happy with this group.
On the Liberal side are the professionals, the educated, the scientists and technologists, working women, the urbanites, the immigrants, the environmentalists.
Not the same group of people on either side at all.
Yes, we sure are becoming polarized as Ignatieff said today in London, but obviously the future has to be with the Liberals if the future matters to any of us.
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