what I think about this.
...Two national polls released in the past month showed the Greens with 10 and 11 per cent of support nationally. But Darrell Bricker, president of Ipsos Reid, believes the support won't translate into extra votes in an actual election, since many of the respondents will not show up at the ballot station.
"There is no question there is some appeal there. But the problem is that the people they appeal to aren't necessarily committed to the electoral process. So you phone them up on the telephone and they say, 'yeah, I'm going to vote Green,' but then they don't actually vote," Mr. Bricker said.
He said the Green party is also attracting support from respondents fed up with the other parties.
"They are not quite undecided because they don't think that any of the other guys deserve to be elected, and the Green party is the one they haven't tried. So, they say they'll vote for the Greens," Mr. Bricker commented.
All signs point to the Greens getting a higher percentage of the popular vote but I remain skeptical that it will approach 10% and since it is an inch deep and a mile wide I also doubt they will be able to translate it into an actual seat.
That being said the ADQ did way better than I had them pegged in the Quebec election pool so I've been wrong before.
