Here is an article from Canadian Press. (h/t NealeNews)
..."I've traditionally always voted Liberal, but not this time around," Tulk, 49, said from his glass and key store in the seaside city. "I'm voting Conservative."
The sentiment is one that analysts speculate could be spreading in parts of Atlantic Canada as people grow increasingly frustrated with the Martin Liberals and begin to see Conservative Leader Stephen Harper as a reasonable alternative.
People like Tulk say Harper has run a disciplined campaign with few flubs and based largely on issues. Moreover for voters on the East Coast, he has managed to diminish the impact of damning comments he made three years ago over what he referred to as the region's "culture of defeat."
"He's shown that he's become a middle-of-the-road politician, not too far right or not too far to the left which is what history shows us in Canada you have to be," John Crosbie, the Tories' Atlantic co-chair and former fisheries minister in Brian Mulroney's cabinet, said from his home in St. John's.
"People now realize he's not Frankenstein, he's not some dinosaur who wants to turn the clock back . . . I think there's a significant difference in how he's being perceived."
Maybe things (scratch the "are") are not as bad there as the last poll from SES Research showed.
