Conservative Popularity Slipping: NDP rising

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Public support for Canada's ruling Conservatives is slipping, although the party would win the most seats in Parliament if an election were held now, according to a new poll released on Thursday.

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The Decima survey for the Canadian Press showed the Conservatives at 38 percent, down from the 41 percent they recorded in the firm's previous poll in late April. The opposition Liberals were at 29 percent, up three points.

The Conservatives won the January 23 election with 36 percent of the vote, winning just 125 of the 308 seats in Parliament.

Asked what outcome they would like to see in the next federal election, 43 percent of respondents said they wanted a Conservative victory but only 30 percent said they wanted a majority for Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Under Canada's first-past-the-post electoral system, a party needs to win around 40 percent of the popular vote to stand a chance of gaining a majority.

Decima said the left-leaning New Democrats were at 21 percent, up two points from late April.

The poll of just over 1,000 people was conducted between May 25 and 28 and is considered accurate to within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
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Yeah The NDP is rising. I guess at least one politican or one party is doing something right. And I believe this was before the Volpe Incident so the Libs should take a hit.
 
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Agreed. And even though when election day comes it is always up to the voter on how he or she votes. But this is a good time, this is the second or third time that I have seen in polls that the NDP have gotten over 20% in 2004.
 
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Sure don't take much for you NDP supporters to get excited, does it. My my, a two per cent rise. Where is the parade route, folks?? 8)
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bluealberta, there was a time when you Conservatives got excited at a 2% rise in support.
 
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bluealberta said:
Sure don't take much for you NDP supporters to get excited, does it. My my, a two per cent rise. Where is the parade route, folks?? 8)
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He I know how the polls are. The polls could show the NDP at 45% and I wouldn't think much of it.

Hey J, there was a poll last summer which had all three parties neck to neck with the NDP over the cons by 1 and the liberals over the ndp by 3. Imagine that on election day. It would be a miscarrage of democracy for sure. I think the bloq would end up forming the next government. lol
 
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JonB2004 said:
bluealberta said:
Sure don't take much for you NDP supporters to get excited, does it. My my, a two per cent rise. Where is the parade route, folks?? 8)
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bluealberta, there was a time when you Conservatives got excited at a 2% rise in support.
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Actually, I only became a conservative supporter again when the PC's and Reform merged. After the 93 election, I became a reform supporter, and all it's various evolutions. Hell, I live in Alberta, a 2% difference in Conservative support is nothing at all.
 
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From what I here form people, moods have changed little since the election. I coubt we would have much of a difference this time around. Besides the slip in leadership in the Liberals we may get more NDP and conservative seats, but I still think even with the Liberal party politically beaten up keeping there polls somewhat high it shows the incompentance in both the Democrats and the Torys to really capitalize on this opritunity. If the Cons had not actted as they have since gaining power they could have became Canada's 21 centry party for awhile but I feel they have thrown that to the curb for neo-con policies. The Democrats could have also overlaped the Liberals by now but they too have not been aggressive enough with the Liberals and Cons and have not focused on the issues Canadians care about right now in the right way to get the best results.

If either the Democrats or Torys showed any Great leadership right now it would pretty much destory the Liberals. I mean what do you have to do to kill this party? Hell the Liberals are helping us and we still can't bring them down. This will be a sad fight once the liberals get a good leader.
 
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I disagree. I think more and more, people are slowly starting to realize all the negativity provided by the Liberals specifically, and the left in general, over the last few years were only so much scare tactics. I think some people are still waiting for that mythical hidden agenda, and will hold out for a while, but as more and more people start to realize Harper governs for the good of Canada, and not the good of the CPC party (as totally opposed to the Liberals), more and more will turn to the CPC. It still takes some time to get over years and years of outright lies and innuendo the CPC suffered from, and it has been a very short time since the last election. But even in that short time, the CPC party has increased quite a bit. It will continue.
 
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RE: Conservative Populari

All the conservatives have to do is run a semi-competent government and they will win a majority.

Canadians tired of the Liberals and want an alternative.

The Liberal Crime Syndicate and the Left tried to paint Harper as a scary "neo-con". But now that the Tories are in office, they're not playing by the stereotype. That's why they're in the 40% range.
 
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Give me a break the only reason the gones can even carry a minority is because of how bad the Liberals are. If the Torys were anything like the Progressive Conservative party was they would have a magority right now. It is the lack of leadership, policy and lies form the conservatives that they do not current have a magority and have slipt in the polls even when the Liberal party is on life support.

I do not think it is the left in Canada doing this because you add up the support for the NDP and Greens and if you consider the Liberals left, it is in a true magority then the Conservatives who however from 25-42% in the polls for the last 2 years.
 
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RE: Conservative Populari

If you can find 5 really good reasons why I should support the Conservatives, I will jump to the Tory train.
 
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JonB2004 said:
If you can find 5 really good reasons why I should support the Conservatives, I will jump to the Tory train.
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There's only two good reasons.

1. Promise of electoral reform (which harper seems to be willing to do yet did appoint a senator)

2. They are not Liberals
 
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Give me a break the only reason the gones can even carry a minority is because of how bad the Liberals are.
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Well, that's kinda the point, isn't it?

The Libs and the Left painted the Tories as a bunch of right-wing monsters. They're not. The Canadian public is slowly realizing this.

And BTW, the Tories are well ahead of the Liberals in Quebec. A future Tory majority will be determined by what happens in Quebec, not Ontario. And right now, as I'm sure aeon and other Quebecois would agree, the Libs are despised in la belle province right now.
 
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Re: RE: Conservative Populari

JonB2004 said:
Not good enough.
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3. They have kept their campaign promises.
4. They have introduced fixed election dates, taking the easy manipulative method of calling an election out of the PM's hands.
5. Rona is a babe.
6. Softwood Lumber has been resolved.
7. Did I mention Rona is a babe? 8)
 
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