Sorry but I find this pretty amusing.
Conservatives: 36%
Liberals: 28%
New Democrats: 17%
Greens: 11%
Bloc Quebecois: 8%
..."I think what we're really seeing this week is that the efforts of the opposition parties to really kind of reset the agenda away from those initiatives and on the Mulroney-Schreiber hasn't really taken."
Anderson said the poll found that Canadians aren't convinced that the Harper Conservatives are the same as the Mulroney Conservatives, and voters don't connect Harper with the scandal.
Asked whether the Conservative party today "is essentially the same as the Conservative party led by Brian Mulroney or pretty different," 60 per cent of respondents said pretty different.
Here's the deal (as I see it), Canadians already punished Mulroney and his brand of Progressive Conservatives by reducing them to two seats in 1993 and ultimately setting up the conditions were the party was disolved. Mulroney is not well regarded in the hearts and minds of Canadians and this scandal can't make Canadians like him less than they already do. And key to all of this that during Mulroney's time in government Stephen Harper was a key member of the Reform Party - a movement derived from anti-Mulroneyism.
But go ahead Liberals, kick the disgraced leader of a defunct party, a man who will always be down, all while the Conservatives kick your current leader while he is down,
Comments (6)
I won’t get excited until the next SES poll. Everything else is just science fiction.
Posted by Greg | November 21, 2007 9:43 AM
Posted on November 21, 2007 09:43
Hasn’t the Liberal Party gone to considerable trouble to try connect Harper to “radical” Reformers, even to the extent of childishly referring to the CPC as the “Reform Alliance Conservatives” and other such nonsense? That doesn’t work very well with this new attempt to draw together Harper’s CPC and Mulroney’s Red Tory Party.
Posted by The Needle | November 21, 2007 10:08 AM
Posted on November 21, 2007 10:08
I am not excited, just amused. The Liberals threw everything into this and the Conservatives go up 2 points from the last Harris-Decima poll. It is not even the raw numbers that matter it is the change from the last poll.
Posted by Greg Staples | November 21, 2007 10:09 AM
Posted on November 21, 2007 10:09
How were Martin’s poll numbers going into the last election?
Posted by ace | November 21, 2007 6:13 PM
Posted on November 21, 2007 18:13
I think it may have a lot to do with that very angry man, Dion. ; )
Posted by Ken in Calgary | November 21, 2007 8:28 PM
Posted on November 21, 2007 20:28
If I remember correctly the Liberals were ahead in the polls before the 2006 election. It wasn’t until after Christmas that the polls started moving in the Conservatives favour.
Posted by Greg Staples
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November 23, 2007 9:00 AM
Posted on November 23, 2007 09:00