Tories flirt with majority support

[CHIMO]

Support for the Harper Conservatives is flirting with majority government levels after weeks of parliamentary wrangling that saw the Liberals try and fail to topple the Tory minority amid a recession.

A Strategic Counsel poll conducted for The Globe and Mail and CTV says Conservative support has risen to 41 per cent nationally – a six-point jump from a month ago.

The Liberals, however have seen their country-wide support drop two points to 28 per cent. In the rest of Canada outside Quebec, Michael Ignatieff's Liberals have seen voter backing fall sharply, shedding seven percentage points to 26 per cent.

The biggest problem for Mr. Ignatieff, however, is Ontario. The Tories have pulled far ahead in the vote-rich battleground of Canada's most-populous province, running 16 points ahead of the Liberals, 46 per cent versus 30 per cent in Ontario.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-flirt-with-majority-support/article1312742/

Perhaps someone, somewhere will start building on substance rather than on headlines.

[daleo]

1. Yeah, right

The Globe is launching the propaganda now.

[Metric System]

2. Ugh. This is like a bad nightmare. Are these Canadians seeing something I'm not? Or do they want to

avoid an election so bad that they're just supporting the Cons in the interim? I noticed that Conservative TV (aka CTV News) has been airing that blasphemous Harper-performs-The Beatles clip as if they've turned into Much Music. Wake me up when this is over!!!

[Posteritatis]

3. It's mostly the latter

All the major parties basically have a zero percent approval rating right now, so people keep juggling around their preferences based on who they hate the least.

[daleo]

4. Real events will start coming to the fore soon

A biased media can only help Harper for so long. As the days get shorter, things get more serious. I am not sure whether Harper's piano stunt will work out so well in the long run - it reminds me of a certain Nero, who was said to fiddle while Rome burnt.