Conservatives at 41% - majority territory

[BitWhys]

Interesting how this poll came out on the same day: Link

"Nationally, the Conservatives sat at 35 per cent in the poll, versus 31 for the Liberals, 13 per cent for the NDP and 10 per cent for the Green Party"

They might not be in majority territory after all...

So many of them came out at once and I usually just skim them to see what the sales department is pushing, but at least one of them said 41% AFTER the undecideds were dispersed proportionally, which is a joke in itself.

I hope he DOES roll the dice and I look forward to when he does.

 

[Jay]

What has Harper done to force things....not vote for his own budget or something?

 

[BitWhys]

heh

reflexes inversely proportional to sincerity and attention span.

 

[Toro]

41% of Canadians sure are smart!

 

[westmanguy]

41% of Canadians are smart enough not to buy the Liberal propaganda.
41% of Canadians realize Harper is not as scary as the LPoC mad him out to be
41% of Canadians are happy enough with the current state of affairs to vote for Harper
41% of Canadians are sick and tired of the LPoC.

41% of Canada is pretty darn smart.

 

[Tonington]

41% is arguable.

 

[Niflmir]

33% of Canadians don't vote. So I think what you mean to say is, 27% +/- 2% of Canadians have answers for the poll questions which favor the Conservatives. Which is being generous and is still quite small.

Put another way. Assuming the authenticity of the poll: 3 out of 4 Canadians will not vote for the Conservative party of Canada.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Right. And according to an Ipsos Reid poll reported on in this morning's Globe&Mail, Conservative support is back down to 36% now. That's 36% of decided voters, and somehow most reports on polls manage to leave out the undecided percentage, which is usually in double digits until right before an election. Reporting that some percentage of voters favour a particular party is thus equivalent to assuming the undecided voters will vote in exactly the same pattern as the decided voters, which various electoral surprises over the years show to be a dangerous assumption.

In other words, you can't trust a poll to tell you anything useful.

 

[ottawabill]

41% of Canadians are smart enough not to buy the Liberal propaganda.
41% of Canadians realize Harper is not as scary as the LPoC mad him out to be
41% of Canadians are happy enough with the current state of affairs to vote for Harper
41% of Canadians are sick and tired of the LPoC.

41% of Canada is pretty darn smart.

the tragic part is it's only 41%

That 30 or so % still think the Liberals are good guys, looking out for them etc. You can say what you want about the Conservatives, the possibilities of a hidden agenda, that they really want to sell us all of the the U.S. etc, but honestly it's the Liberals who act on things to the demise of the public, but they wrap it up in twisted ways to make many feel good about their disasters.

Balanced federal books by withdrawing health dollars, then blame the conservatives in Ontario when they cut programs that were funded by those very dollars. Then treaten to cut more health dollars if anyone looked for another way to cut healthcare cost.

Increase U.I. er I mean E.I. premiums to all businesses then allow very few to ever collect it.

Lose..damn LOSE a billion dollars!!
register guns for another billion so that the illegal guns on the street will be..well still illegal, while hunters and farmers are registered.

could go on and on!!

I'm not saying the conservatives are great heros, or God sent, but damn the other choices have become moronic!!

 

[CDNBear]

Imagine if it were a two party mainstream in Canada like it is in the States....

NO!!!

please

compromise is one thing

record spending from a Conservative is another.

The very reason it ticked me off.

yeah, no kidding, eh?

he's no phoney but he'd do things totally different if he had a majority and that's just fine with them. what a joke.

But if this budget was a cunning ploy to purchase a majority, is it really a joke?

oh bull****. your kind keeps on bringing it up since strawmen and ancient history is all you've got to distract people with and ancient history can be verified.

Ancient history? Like Mulroneys spending? The one thing the Liberals keep throw out when their dear party is attacked?

I'll stick to watching the history closely, so as not to let those that would, repeat it.

 

[BitWhys]

...
But if this budget was a cunning ploy to purchase a majority, is it really a joke?
...

I don't see why this time should be any different. May as well find the humour in it even if you do have to keep it to yourself.

 

[BitWhys]

I'll stick to watching the history closely, so as not to let those that would, repeat it.

um

I understand your point but unless you want to run for office you might be better of just being content with the knowledge that you saw it coming.

 

[BitWhys]

...
Ancient history? Like Mulroneys spending? The one thing the Liberals keep throw out when their dear party is attacked?...

you mean out of nowhere? sure. exactly like that.

what page is that on?

 

[CDNBear]

I don't see why this time should be any different. May as well find the humour in it even if you do have to keep it to yourself.

Are you purposefully avoiding the fact that he might be as cunning and sneaky as every other politician and willing to stoop to any low to retain office? Only to come back and rule as he saw fit.

um

I understand your point but unless you want to run for office you might be better of just being content with the knowledge that you saw it coming.

The point is, if we ignore or chose to let history be lost in the past, we are bound to repeat it. As you brought up the dragging up of ancient history being a "strawman" theory to distract people, I felt it was worth mentioning that we should not forget it, it serves as a worth while reminder of what happens when one political party is left unchecked for far to long.

you mean out of nowhere? sure. exactly like that.

what page is that on?

It isn't in this thread, surprizingly, but it is usually the first line of the Liberal defence plan.

 

[BitWhys]

...As you brought up the dragging up of ancient history being a "strawman" theory to distract people...

come on guy. I said "strawmen and ancient history". Let's not reduce discussion to the correct and incorrect interpretation of conjunctions.

 

[BitWhys]

Are you purposefully avoiding the fact that he might be as cunning and sneaky as every other politician and willing to stoop to any low to retain office? Only to come back and rule as he saw fit...

I'm not bothering to mention the possibility because the inevitable swarm of troll it will stir up would make it not worth the aggrevation. Thanks for asking.

 

[Toro]

I like strawberries.

 

[Toro]

Who the h-e-double hockey sticks sent me this reputation message

grow up

sign3

from this thread?

I mean I have a thousand similar reputation pings from other threads, but I only have two posts in this thread.

What's the deal?

 

[Jay]

Bit, did you do that to Toro?

 

[BitWhys]

Bit, did you do that to Toro?

nah. that's far too clever to be me.