At least this will put to rest the silly notion that Ignatieff's tour this summer was successful. Even when he drinks a beer he looks arrogant and out of touch. Now looks shouldn't matter, but when how you look matches how you are perceived then you are in trouble. Whoever organized the tour thought if they sent him to Tim Horton's or put a beer in his hands he'd look like an ordinary Canadian. He didn't, and they shouldn't have expected that he would.
The census is not an issue for Canadians; nor is the long gun registry.
The opposition has been very weak. It is quite an acheivement for Harper that he has been able to stay as PM in a minority parliament without the opposition being able to force an election.
What really gets me is how clueless the Liberals are. I mean Liberals should look at the polling data regarding Harper and then ask themselves how they can actually be losing to this guy. Personally I do not hope for a CPC majority, but I do wish the election would come sooner rather than later. Because after the Liberals lose the election they can get rid of that neo-con Ignatieff.
1: It's an online poll and I tend to mistrust online polls far more then telephone polls. 2: It shows a big boost for the Green Party, which never corralates to a big gain at the box. 3: It's the biggest outlier on all September Polls.
Not to say that it's not accurate but I'd need to see gap corralation amoungst other polling agents. I could well be that this is just the first in a series dipicting this result but I won't say that it's accurate until more pollsters concur.
Unless of course it showed Ignatieff was more popular, then you'd believe the poll. For most Canadians, however, there is absolutely nothing surprising in this poll.
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At least this will put to rest the silly notion that Ignatieff's tour this summer was successful. Even when he drinks a beer he looks arrogant and out of touch. Now looks shouldn't matter, but when how you look matches how you are perceived then you are in trouble. Whoever organized the tour thought if they sent him to Tim Horton's or put a beer in his hands he'd look like an ordinary Canadian. He didn't, and they shouldn't have expected that he would.
Nevermind, I did your job for you -
http://www.visioncritical.com/blog/conservatives-lead-by-eight-points-in-canada-as-greens-gain/
This is no surprise.
The census is not an issue for Canadians; nor is the long gun registry.
The opposition has been very weak. It is quite an acheivement for Harper that he has been able to stay as PM in a minority parliament without the opposition being able to force an election.
Canada needs to have a CPC majority.
It's the only way they'll learn their mistake.
The numbers west of Ontario are a wasteland for the Libs.
They are in a tight race for fourth in BC. and overall are third across the west.
What really gets me is how clueless the Liberals are. I mean Liberals should look at the polling data regarding Harper and then ask themselves how they can actually be losing to this guy. Personally I do not hope for a CPC majority, but I do wish the election would come sooner rather than later. Because after the Liberals lose the election they can get rid of that neo-con Ignatieff.
Color me skeptical of this poll on three fronts:
1: It's an online poll and I tend to mistrust online polls far more then telephone polls.
2: It shows a big boost for the Green Party, which never corralates to a big gain at the box.
3: It's the biggest outlier on all September Polls.
Not to say that it's not accurate but I'd need to see gap corralation amoungst other polling agents. I could well be that this is just the first in a series dipicting this result but I won't say that it's accurate until more pollsters concur.
Unless of course it showed Ignatieff was more popular, then you'd believe the poll. For most Canadians, however, there is absolutely nothing surprising in this poll.
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