More Polling
Oh polls, how we all love and hate and hate to love and love to hate you.
Tories - 38
Liberals - 29
NDP - 21
Bloc - 8
That's within striking distance, though still uncomfortably behind for the Liberals. Breaking 20 for the NDP is probably the bigger threat to the Liberals, since they take away left-leaning votes in English Canada. Given that the Tories are poised to make inroads in Quebec - which is where most of their recently increased support is coming from, not Ontario - we need to hold our base and recover in English Canada to keep them on the ropes, and the NDP being that high is not good.
But the Bloc at 8% is certainly a happy development.
posted by Ryan Ringer @ 6/01/2006 06:12:00 p.m.
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2 Comments:
With the Liberals being leaderless, I think this poll is in many ways good news. Usually leaderless parties don't do as well as a party with a leader. I don't believe in just pulling votes from the NDP, but rather from both the NDP and Tories.
If the Liberals elects a leader like Gerard Kennedy or Bob Rae, you can be certain that they will take back some of those NDP votes. Also, as soon as there is *any* leader in place, the attack machine will start firing away at the Conservatives, reducing their support.
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