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Title: NDP making huge gains as Canada tilts leftward: poll
Category: Political
Posted By: Canadaka
Date: 2012-05-28 13:36:55
Canadian

[uwish]

yawn!

I trust this opinion poll as much as I trust an NDP government to manage their own chequebook.

[martin14]

middle of majority government... only in your dreams Trevor


However, thank you for the link, it led me here..

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/27 ... rly-1980s/


11 remortgages, sounds like his economic plan for the future of the country as well.

No thanks

[CDN_PATRIOT]

@ Forum Research's 'poll'.


-J.

[OnTheIce]

uwish uwish:

yawn!

I trust this opinion poll as much as I trust an NDP government to manage their own chequebook.

Maybe he can mortgage Canada, 11 times.

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/05/28/mu ... e-11-times

[westmanguy]

I really frankly couldn't give a damn about these opinion polls in the middle of a majority government (not even the middle, we're just over 1/4 in).

Harper is getting the controversial stuff going in the first two years and will go to the centre more and get more election-focused in the latter half and these numbers will be things of the past.

NDP can be deluded all they want. Goooood luck.

[Curtman]

$1:

By far the most polarizing leader was Mr. Harper. When the number of respondents who disapproved was subtracted from those who approved, Mr. Harper’s net approval rating stood at a gaping -26, compared to -5 for Mr. Rae and +10 for Mr. Mulcair

Har har har.. If this poll was the rep game, Harper would be Eureka.

[Bodah]

Doesn't concern me either. The only poll that matters is the official one on election day. Which is a couple of years away anyway.

Also, Mulclair is heading out west soon to check out the oilsands. So don't forget westerners, he compared Alberta's oil sands to Nigeria in parliament not long ago.

[westmanguy]

Mulcair's strategy is to use anti-West rhetoric wrapped up in being 'green' to maintain the NDP's dominance in Quebec and to exploit the still economically-sensitive Ontario which has been affected by slumps in the manufacturing sector to put together a Central Canada coalition that will put the NDP in power.

Gooood luck. I think his current approach will work in Quebec, ironically. (I get so irritated that Quebec receives so much transfers from equalization from the resource-rich West and then call the oilsands the 'root of all evil'. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you).

I think Ontario voters are much more sensible than that (other than the Toronto downtown core). Ontario is sick of these national unity crises and aren't about to go allowing the West to become alienated once again. Also believe Ontario voters are smart enough to realize that manufacturing is being far more affected from global issues like the faltering U.S. economy and EU debt crisis than Alberta oil. They know that's its the West that helped us get through this recession a lot faster than if we didn't have that economic boon to rely on.

[PluggyRug]

westmanguy westmanguy:

They know that's its the West that helped us get through this recession a lot faster than if we didn't have that economic boon to rely on.

Yes we do.

As for Mulcair, well, empty vessels make most noise.

[PluggyRug]

The poll was based on an interactive voice response telephone survey of 1,836 random residents of Canada, 18 or older, conducted on May 23. The results are considered accurate to within 2.29 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, every second leap year, when Friday the 13th happens on a Thursday during a full moon at 12 noon, in the month of Octember.

[Curtman]

PluggyRug PluggyRug:

The poll was based on an interactive voice response telephone survey of 1,836 random residents of Canada, 18 or older, conducted on May 23. The results are considered accurate to within 2.29 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, every second leap year, when Friday the 13th happens on a Thursday during a full moon at 12 noon, in the month of Octember.

Or this one..

Poll: NDP support growing across country (May 10 2012)

Harris Decima Harris Decima:

The Canadian Press Harris Decima survey shows the NDP have 34 per cent of popular support, compared to 30 per cent for the Conservatives.

Or this one..
NDP closing on in on the Tories: Poll

Abacus Data Abacus Data:

37% support for the Tories nationally, unchanged since January. the New Democratic Party has rocketed to 35% backing.

Or...

Harper government losing its sheen

Nanos Research Nanos Research:

A late-April Nanos Research poll had a resurgent NDP at 32.4 per cent support to the Conservatives' 34.7 per cent

Pretty hard to deny at that point, no? 34 percent-ish?

[Lemmy]

westmanguy westmanguy:

I think Ontario voters are much more sensible than that (other than the Toronto downtown core). Ontario is sick of these national unity crises and aren't about to go allowing the West to become alienated once again.

I don't believe that. Ontarians care about the West just the way the rest of the country cares about Quebec. We think you're quaint but backwoods-dumb and couldn't care less whether you're alienated.

westmanguy westmanguy:

Also believe Ontario voters are smart enough to realize that manufacturing is being far more affected from global issues like the faltering U.S. economy and EU debt crisis than Alberta oil.

Exactly correct.

westmanguy westmanguy:

They know that's its the West that helped us get through this recession a lot faster than if we didn't have that economic boon to rely on.

Incorrect. First, because we haven't gotten through this recession yet, but more specifically, what saved our economic asses, relatively, was banking regulation, not the western economy.

[westmanguy]

We haven't been in a recession in over a year. A recession is defined as two quarters of contracted growth to GDP.

Hasn't been the case.

And good luck if Ontario decides to throw us under the bus. Western Canada's population is larger than the population of Quebec-East. You think after the NEP Alberta will accept any arbitrary regressive pollution penalties from a hypothetical NDP gov't? Yah right. They'll outright defy it and a separatist movement will born.

[dino_bobba_renno]

Polls, especially ones that take are taking a reading on an election that is years away really aren't worth the paper they're printed on. According to the last one I saw Danielle Smith should be Premier of AB with a healthy majority.

I would suspect that many of these NDP supporters will vanish when they realize they're about to hand control of their government to an inexperienced and idealist bunch of Quebec MP's, considering thats where the majority of their support is from.