From Angus Reid:
Only 29% of Canadians approve of theI really don't hate to say I told you so.
recent agreement between the Liberal and Green parties
Two-in-five (44%) perceive deal as a sign of weakness
If Canadians could vote in Central Nova, Peter MacKay would get 35%; May second with 22%
Majority of Canadians (52%) reject Liberal / NDP / Green merger
And the Decima poll that Harper's psychic really should have predicted was coming before the Conservatives spent so much money on their fancy new digs (I mean what do we pay that woman for- it can't simply be for picking out Harper's 'try to look like a human' turtlenecks and ensuring that he always gets the same 7-year-old-boy haircut):
Cons 30I have said it before, and it bears repeating, that one should not pay too much attention to just one poll. But the trends are interesting. Especially the trend that shows that the Greens peaked months ago. I like that one.
Libs 29
NDP 18
Green 11
Bloc 8
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An online Angus-Reid poll has you smiling?
What about the most recent SES poll that has the NDP at 13 nationally?
The NDP must cease attacking the LPC now that it's clear your dreams of replacing us, following a Hapocalypse, are hollow.
Exactly Quantumm Liberal, it's amazing how people take the "online poll" #'s as somehow being accurate. This online site is the same outfit that put the Liberals at 22% a month ago - only supposedly 4% ahead of the NDP.
Sorry, Erin.. but I dont buy that, and I've already posted more then 1 blog on how inaccurate and unreliable online polling is - and I'm not just saying that because of the Angus-Reid folks having #'s that aren't favourable to the Liberals.
Zogby's online polling in the US has turned out so notoriously unreliable the Democratic blogs wont even use them. or else do so with an extremely large grain of salt - and that survey SKEWS Democratic.
So when you get me a traditional phone poll showing the same disapproval of May/Dion, then start crowing about it.
What I look at is the Greens level of support in both Decima and Strategic Council - and its support is holding If you believe SC's version of poll #'s, they're only 1 pt behind the NDP, so if there's any widespread disapproval of Dion/May's pact, it isn't reflecting in polling #'s nationally for the Greens.
Both James Traver and HAROON SIDDIQUI, opinion writers in the Torstar today, basically land a 2 for 1 punch by simultaneously bashing both the cons and libs on the environmental file, on the one side, and on the other, the Afghanistan file.
Travers,on the libs for doing nothing after signing the Kyoto deal, and on the cons for not working with the opposition to do something.
Of course, the libs almost blew that one too, as they came kicking and screaming to the table.
On the Afghanistan front, he gave both the libs and cons failing grades about the Afghanistan debate.
Let me quote a few juicy remarks, as I am lovin it:
Liberals are "not well-positioned to mount a credible opposition, having committed Canada to the mission in Kandahar in the first place, and to have also agreed to hand over captured Afghans to local authorities without obtaining the right to monitor their fate – something the British and the Dutch insisted on."
Yes, I know this is long but when your liberal newspaper reminds its readers that the libs are not much better than the cons, you see the optics here. Next:
"Stéphane Dion has since added to the Liberal misjudgments by having his deputy, Michael Ignatieff, lead the charge in the Commons on issues of torture.
All that Harper did was to note that Ignatieff is on record, while living in the United States, as having favoured "indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
"Those are the exact words of the deputy leader of the Liberal party."
That was a zinger from the Prime Minister, one that the Liberals were asking for.
It may be in Ignatieff's interest to establish his liberal credentials but it is definitely not in the interest of the Liberal party to have him lead the charge on the subject.
The political battle over our role in Afghanistan is a battle about the soul of Canada."
No kidding. So let's go back to the libs gloating this week, about trapping the NDP. Your party looks foolish when you bring a motion forward that is window dressing, but does nothing about changing the deck chairs, and really caring about Canadian soldiers and Afghanistan people.
There is going to be a real motion before the house today, to bring the troops home before and by 2009. If libs want to redeem our Canadian soul, and actually act like the 'national governing party' they best get on board, instead of playing parliamentary games, or they deserve to remain in the wilderness longer.
And all that guff about the NDP attacking the libs. If the latest upfront attack by the libs in parliament this week, along with 2-front strategy of libs-greens in progressive bloggers are any indication of who is attacking who - well I rest my case.
It's getting tiring, a very boring, and the polls of people's opinions mean that the NDP is standing up for what Canadians believe.
Well.. I'm sorry, Jan.. but I can assure you there is no "2-pronged" strategy by Green and Liberal bloggers to gang up on the nDp at Prog Blog.
If there was a strategy session which plotted to do that, then I must have missed the meeting ;) Anything you see on there is spontaneous, not directed.
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