Apolitical Staples

Greg, I’d have more faith in Bricker’s thoughts if he hadn’t been so wrong in his predictions for the last two elections.

Funny, I agree with Rondi in some respects. Ipsos has been wrong a lot. However, I don’t think that is helpful to the Conservatives, in this case. We will see when SES does its next national poll.

Also, how much of that massive 34% CPC support is made up of Alberta voters, where there is absolutely no chance for seat growth?

I think Dion is getting some bad advice from his handlers. People are getting tired of the “far-right mean-spirited government” stuff.

Having said that, I hope it continues. No new ideas; just negative propaganda. Canadians will see through this smear for the lack of substance that the Liberal party still is.

I think Canadians have seen through the Conservative smear campaign for what it is and the disastrous policies for what they are.

It’s interesting that the 2 “rational” parties now total 70% and the single purpose or one-dimensional utopians are down to 30% of Canadians. In other words if we are to consider the Liberals as somewhat sane and maybe a bit less corrupt than they were during the previous century, then Canadians are starting to say that they want pragmatic solutions and not fringe parties at the margin.

I’ve seen the marginal parties scoring as high as: Dippers 20%, Blocheads 12% and Greens 9%. Then it looked like nearly half the country wanted to vote for a mono-purpose party of some sort and I thought we were doomed.

This is good news. Two strong parties competing for the votes of Canadians will make us a better country than the Pizza Parliament that I sometimes thought we were heading for.

SLG..pot to kettle ..come in..disasterous for who ?

You? your leftist buddies? good.Suck on it for a while, maybe it will get sweeter with time.

Smear campaign? where were you the last 13 years when your puppet masters were spinng all those lies about the conservatives?

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I for one may end up voting for the Liberals (if I bother to vote), not because they are great, but only because Harper is crap and I don’t want to divide the vote. I suspect that is the case with a lot of others as well (on both sides of the aisle ). That’s what happens when the electoral system is as screwed up as FPTP.

Actually Greg, that you would consider giving your vote to a party proven to engage in corrupt activity shows a lot about your character, or lack thereof.

You just want your share of the loot. That says enough about how screwed up our electoral politics is.

Greg, a lot of blue Liberals are going to see the ballast of their boat tilting left as you get on board and they will switch to the Conservatives boat. The Conservatives boat will appeal to many new passengers, particularly in the cities where SSM is no longer an issue.

So the wasted votes on the left will have to move to the Liberals which means that Harper can finally move the goal posts to the right a little bit , which shows that the electoral system is working just fine.

May the best boat win.

Sinister Greg:

It’s up to you, but given how so-called “strategic voting” has been a bust more often than not, you may be better off sticking with your principled choice, whatever that may be.

S-Voting failed the centre-left federally in ‘06 (despite Buzz’s efforts), and in Ontario in ‘99. It arguably worked in Ontario in ‘03 and federally in ‘04, but in each of those cases, the centre-right party either ran a bad campaign from start to end (Eves ‘03) or fumbled the ball at the end (Harper ‘04, though even then, the Grits were held to a minority and the stage was set for ‘06).

… Of course, it’d be better for my team if you follow Buzz’s path - so on second thought, knock yourself out, and be as “strategic” as you like!

“how much of that massive 34% CPC support is made up of Alberta voters, where there is absolutely no chance for seat growth?”

I’m glad to see you’re conceding the NDP and Liberals have no chance to win anything in Alberta.

How much of that Liberal support is concentrated in Toronto?

Also, how much of that massive 34% CPC support is made up of Alberta voters, where there is absolutely no chance for seat growth?

You keep flogging the idea in practically every poll thread that somehow the CPC numbers are being artificially inflated by higher support in Alberta, yet you’ve never shown any evidence whatsoever that this is the case.

It’s a shame that the articulate, reasonable Sinister Greg of ‘05 was replaced by the frothing, raving Sinister Greg of ‘06…

It’s a shame that the articulate, reasonable Sinister Greg of ‘05 was replaced by the frothing, raving Sinister Greg of ‘06…

Actually it is the disillusioned Greg of 06. I thought Harper got it. I was wrong.

As for strategic voting, ya it sucks. I wish we had a rational voting system, but no one seems interested. In my case whether I vote or not will make no difference. I live in a riding that has been Liberal since God was new to the neighbourhood.

Yes, to echo Chris, how much of that Liberal vote is concentrated in Toronto, especially downtown.

The Conservatives are at 37% in Ontario in this poll, so they are doing quite fine. Exclude Toronto from the Ontario numbers, and the Conservatives are at a much higher percentage, and in a position to gain more seats from the Ontario 40 in the last election.

Yea, I always wish that the polling companies would take a larger sample than 1000ish, so we could see the poll broken down by region with a much smaller margin of error to those regional sample sizes. It would give us a much better idea of how an election would go.

“Actually it is the disillusioned Greg of 06. I thought Harper got it. I was wrong.”

You thought what? That he was a Trudeau centralist, a multiculturist, a socialist? That he wouldn’t play politics to win at politics? Ha.

Haha.

hee.