Harper seems to be slipping

[#juan]

Nik Nanos polls indicate a bit of a change:

Liberal 35.4% (+6.3)
Conservative 31.3% (-0.2)
NDP 23.6% (-3.6)
BQ 4.8% (-0.4)
Green 4.2% (-1.7)
*Undecided 11.2% (-17.1)

Justin Trudeau's Liberals in this poll, have climbed out of second place.

Federal Liberals lead Conservatives in new poll


Nanos poll suggests NDP drop to third as number of undecided voters plummets

By Laura Payton, CBC News

Posted: Apr 12, 2013 5:07 AM ET

Last Updated: Apr 12, 2013 5:04 AM ET

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A new poll by Nanos Research shows the Liberals ahead of the Conservatives and NDP. The Liberal Party will announce Sunday who won the vote to become the next leader. Marc Garneau, who dropped out of the race, looks on as hopefuls Martha Hall Findlay, Justin Trudeau and Martin Cauchon take part in a debate in Halifax on March 3. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)





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Nanos Number: Trudeau's support coming at a cost to MulcairLiberal leadership vote tally breezes past 60% markLiberals running neck-and-neck with NDP, Nanos poll findsThe Nanos Number


The federal Liberals have topped the Conservatives for the first time in years, with the NDP dropping to third, a new Nanos Research poll suggests.
The poll, which comes more than two years before the next federal election, has the Liberals in first place at 35.4 per cent. The Conservatives are 4.1 percentage points back, at 31.3 per cent and the NDP are at 23.6 per cent.
The difference between the Liberals and Conservatives is greater than the margin of error for the poll. The numbers are considered accurate to within 3.3 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
That puts the Liberals up several percentage points from the last poll two months ago, when they sat in second place at 29.1 per cent. The Conservatives were ahead in that poll with 31.5 per cent and the NDP in third at 27.2 per cent.
The number of people polled who said they were undecided has plunged since the last survey, from 28.3 per cent last February to 11.2 per cent this month.
The Liberal Party has had substantial media coverage in the past few months as they ramp up to reveal their next leader this weekend.
"It is too early to tell whether this increase in Liberal support is the new trend or a direct result of the focus on the Liberal Leadership race," Nik Nanos, the president and CEO of Nanos Research, told CBC News.
"What is clear is that the focus on the Liberal leadership is having reverberations on the political landscape," he said.

 

[taxslave]

Not even enough to be a stastical error. Be interesting to know if anyone west of Ontario was included in this poll and if so what their % of those polled is.

Of course we are all rooting for Just-In because it will garuantee a Conservative win again.

 

[captain morgan]

Too funny.. The Libs haven't even formally elected a leader and here is the CBC - ole faithful - reporting that the Liberals will be forming the next gvt.

Can someone tell me again why Canadian taxpayers give these idiots $1 billion every year?

 

[gerryh]

Too funny.. The Libs haven't even formally elected a leader and here is the CBC - ole faithful - reporting that the Liberals will be forming the next gvt.

Can someone tell me again why Canadian taxpayers give these idiots $1 billion every year?

actually, the CBC is reporting on a poll from Nanos.

 

[#juan]

Too funny.. The Libs haven't even formally elected a leader and here is the CBC - ole faithful - reporting that the Liberals will be forming the next gvt.

Can someone tell me again why Canadian taxpayers give these idiots $1 billion every year?

After this poll Justin Trudeau will win the Liberal leadership by acclamation. The CBC just reported the
poll results...they didn't make up the poll.

 

[captain morgan]

actually, the CBC is reporting on a poll from Nanos.

Agreed.... But I find it amazing that the CBC would still post this 'news' (if it can be called that) based on the notion that the Libs don't officially have a leader.

After this poll Justin Trudeau will win the Liberal leadership by acclamation. The CBC just reported the
poll results...they didn't make up the poll.

Great... It will be even more interesting when the Liberals publish the results.... Maybe the Libs will go so far as to actually outline some policy such that the public can form an actual opinion on them.

Right now, they have no leader and no policy...

 

[petros]

Can someone tell me again why Canadian taxpayers give these idiots $1 billion every year?

Because it's the going rate, Privates get equal or more in tax credits. To top it off, they are all Union. Ronnie Reagun died a Union member. Every flippin' TV show, movie and news are Union made.

lataxslave will have to give up all media to live freely.

 

[#juan]

Agreed.... But I find it amazing that the CBC would still post this 'news' (if it can be called that) based on the notion that the Libs don't officially have a leader.



Great... It will be even more interesting when the Liberals publish the results.... Maybe the Libs will go so far as to actually outline some policy such that the public can form an actual opinion on them.

Right now, they have no leader

Oh I think they have a leader. Without Justin Trudeau these poll results wouldn't have happened.
I think we can bet the farm that JT will win the Liberal leadership.

 

[WindWalker]

I wonder if they polled anybody old enough to remember the finger the old man flipped the West.

 

[petros]

Apparently not. He didn't flip off the west, he flipped off some loud mouth protester.

 

[JLM]

Nik Nanos polls indicate a bit of a change:

Liberal 35.4% (+6.3)
Conservative 31.3% (-0.2)
NDP 23.6% (-3.6)
BQ 4.8% (-0.4)
Green 4.2% (-1.7)
*Undecided 11.2% (-17.1)

Justin Trudeau's Liberals in this poll, have climbed out of second place.

Federal Liberals lead Conservatives in new poll


Nanos poll suggests NDP drop to third as number of undecided voters plummets

By Laura Payton, CBC News

Posted: Apr 12, 2013 5:07 AM ET

Last Updated: Apr 12, 2013 5:04 AM ET

Read 252 comments252

A new poll by Nanos Research shows the Liberals ahead of the Conservatives and NDP. The Liberal Party will announce Sunday who won the vote to become the next leader. Marc Garneau, who dropped out of the race, looks on as hopefuls Martha Hall Findlay, Justin Trudeau and Martin Cauchon take part in a debate in Halifax on March 3. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)





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Nanos Number: Trudeau's support coming at a cost to MulcairLiberal leadership vote tally breezes past 60% markLiberals running neck-and-neck with NDP, Nanos poll findsThe Nanos Number


The federal Liberals have topped the Conservatives for the first time in years, with the NDP dropping to third, a new Nanos Research poll suggests.

One of the main problems is the current electorate was either not around or too young to realize the huge mistake that was made back in 1968.

 

[#juan]

Agreed.... But I find it amazing that the CBC would still post this 'news' (if it can be called that) based on the notion that the Libs don't officially have a leader.



Great... It will be even more interesting when the Liberals publish the results.... Maybe the Libs will go so far as to actually outline some policy such that the public can form an actual opinion on them.

Right now, they have no leader and no policy...

JT's first priority is to win the Liberal leadership. I would say he has just about done that. The next scheduled election
is two years away. How he handles himself until then will determine whether the liberals form the next government or be the next opposition.

 

[gerryh]

I wonder if they polled anybody old enough to remember the finger the old man flipped the West.

really? He flipped of the entire west? When did that happen? You want to give particulars on this?








:roll: what a fu ckin maroon.

 

[WindWalker]

From Wikipedia: Pierre Trudeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Legacy with respect to western Canada

Trudeau's posthumous reputation in the Western Provinces is notably less favourable than in the rest of English-speaking Canada. He is often regarded as the "father of Western alienation." The reasons are various. Some of them are ideological. Some Canadians disapproved of official bilingualism and many other of Trudeau's policies, which they saw as moving the country away from its historic traditions and attachments, and markedly toward the political left. Such feelings were perhaps strongest in the West. Other reasons for western alienation are more plainly regional in nature. To many westerners, Trudeau's policies seemed to favour other parts of the country, especially Ontario and Quebec, at their expense. Outstanding among such policies was the National Energy Program, which was seen as unfairly depriving western provinces of the full economic benefit from their oil and gas resources, in order to pay for nationwide social programs, and make regional transfer payments to poorer parts of the country. Sentiments of this kind were especially strong in oil-rich Alberta where unemployment rose from 4% to 10% following passage of the NEP.[70] Estimates have placed Alberta's losses between $50 billion and $100 billion because of the NEP.[71][72]
More particularly, two incidents involving Trudeau are remembered as having fostered Western alienation, and as emblematic of it. During a visit to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on July 17, 1969, Trudeau met with a group of farmers who were protesting that the federal government was not doing more to market their wheat. The widely remembered perception is that Trudeau dismissed the protesters' concerns with "Why should I sell your wheat?" – in reality, however, the media never adequately reported the fact that he asked the question rhetorically and then proceeded to answer it himself.[73] Years later, on a train trip through Salmon Arm, British Columbia, he "gave the finger" to a group of protesters through the carriage window – less widely remembered is that the protesters were shouting anti-French slogans at the train.[74]

 

[gerryh]

From Wikipedia: Pierre Trudeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Legacy with respect to western Canada

Trudeau's posthumous reputation in the Western Provinces is notably less favourable than in the rest of English-speaking Canada. He is often regarded as the "father of Western alienation." The reasons are various. Some of them are ideological. Some Canadians disapproved of official bilingualism and many other of Trudeau's policies, which they saw as moving the country away from its historic traditions and attachments, and markedly toward the political left. Such feelings were perhaps strongest in the West. Other reasons for western alienation are more plainly regional in nature. To many westerners, Trudeau's policies seemed to favour other parts of the country, especially Ontario and Quebec, at their expense. Outstanding among such policies was the National Energy Program, which was seen as unfairly depriving western provinces of the full economic benefit from their oil and gas resources, in order to pay for nationwide social programs, and make regional transfer payments to poorer parts of the country. Sentiments of this kind were especially strong in oil-rich Alberta where unemployment rose from 4% to 10% following passage of the NEP.[70] Estimates have placed Alberta's losses between $50 billion and $100 billion because of the NEP.[71][72]
More particularly, two incidents involving Trudeau are remembered as having fostered Western alienation, and as emblematic of it. During a visit to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on July 17, 1969, Trudeau met with a group of farmers who were protesting that the federal government was not doing more to market their wheat. The widely remembered perception is that Trudeau dismissed the protesters' concerns with "Why should I sell your wheat?" – in reality, however, the media never adequately reported the fact that he asked the question rhetorically and then proceeded to answer it himself.[73] Years later, on a train trip through Salmon Arm, British Columbia, he "gave the finger" to a group of protesters through the carriage window – less widely remembered is that the protesters were shouting anti-French slogans at the train.[74]

well golly gee whiz, look at that, Trudeau didn't really do what he was accused of.

 

[damngrumpy]

Polling prior to elections can swing widely. Right now the Liberals are nominating a
leader if they didn't top the poll it would be a concern. The NDP and the Tories of
course watch the polling but it is hardly a measure of reality its a measure that something
in politics if going on. Nothing more at this point. The CBC doesn't have the Liberals
ahead the polling they are reporting on has the Liberals ahead there is a difference.
If I were the Tories though I would be concerned as other polling companies have shown
the Harper regime in the low thirties for a couple of months now.

 

[JLM]

really? He flipped of the entire west? When did that happen? You want to give particulars on this?








:roll: what a fu ckin maroon.

I think he might be referring to the event of Trudeau giving the finger to the residents of Salmon Arm from the train. (Apparently that actually happened) Maybe not such a "maroon", Gerry. -

 

[petros]

One thing is for sure. If the next election comes down to personality, Harper is fvcked.

 

[karrie]

Oh my goodness, if we end up with Trudeau, we'll be in the running with Russia for most photogenic ruler. Sah-weet!!

 

[damngrumpy]

petros I think Harper is in serious trouble politically so much so that some people I know
in media are speculating on whether he will run again personally. The cracks are starting
to show but to suggest the definitive poll is out is a long way from political reality there is
movement that is for sure but not settled movement and not really strategic movement