January 18, 2006
CAN'TCHA FEEL THE TRUE PATRIOT LOVE?
Conservatives take 18-point lead, poll shows (CTV.ca News Staff, Jan. 18 2006)
The Conservative Party has an 18-point lead over the Liberals in a new poll, giving them 42 per cent support nationally and setting possibly setting the stage for a major electoral shift. [...]Posted by Orrin Judd at January 18, 2006 8:41 AM"These numbers would deliver a majority government," pollster Tim Woolstencroft of The Strategic Counsel told CTV.ca on Tuesday.
"We've seen a transformation of the electoral landscape that's basically on par with 1993, 1984, 1968 and 1958," he said, referring to elections which generated big majorities. [...]
Here are the parties' diverging paths revealed by The Strategic Counsel's tracking poll, conducted for CTV and The Globe and Mail (change, in percentage points, from the Jan. 12, 14-15 poll in brackets):
* Conservatives: 42 per cent (+2)
* Liberals: 24 per cent (-3)
* NDP: 17 per cent (+1)
* Bloc Quebecois: 12 per cent (+1)
* Greens: 5 per cent (-1)When one looks at numbers across Canada excluding Quebec, the Conservatives hold a 46-28 lead.
If the Conservatives win, Quebec will start talking about seceding again.
Posted by: Brandon at January 18, 2006 11:41 AMBrandon:
No, Toronto will.
BTW, the paranoia really is a lot of fun. It must be like it was in the States in 1980. I remember the hard left trying to fear-monger in the Mulroney years, but as the spectrum then spanned all the way from the banal to the mushy, no one else really bought it. But this time there are privileged yuppies and boomers galore who are convinced some dark cloud they can't put their fingers on is about to descend.
The other day I was arguing with a lawyer in a Toronto blue chip firm and asked what exactly she thought Harper would do that was so scary. She mumbled darkly that she "knew people who knew him" and that his family was "almost white supremist." She also told me she had friends in Florida who were so worried "they wondered whether it was worthwhile coming back."
America, refuge from Canadian facism! I love it.
Posted by: Peter B at January 18, 2006 1:00 PMIf they were at all paying attention,there'd be a lot of Leftists glad they didn't make that move to Canada in 2001 and 2005.
But where are all the Canadian Leftist going to threaten to move to? France? Cuba? Or as mentioned, Florida?
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 18, 2006 2:07 PM