Corporate Research Associates has released their quarterly reports for the four Atlantic Canada provinces, though only released polls for Nova Scotia and PEI yesterday. Both show good news for the Liberals out that way, as I suspect (or, well, hope) the New Brunswick and Newfoundland polls will. But for now,
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Blunt Objects Blog: New Redistribution Results – Riding-by-riding
If you feel so inclined, below is an embedded graph that you can peruse at your leisure. It’s also available on my “Redistribution 2013” page, which I’ll also be updating with new maps soon. Click on the tabs at the bottom of the graph to see all provinces (except for
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: The Next Myth: "Permanent Conservative Majority"
I’d like to point out this bit of sensationalism coming from CuriosityCat, as well as at Liberal.ca… forums? I dunno, wherever this is located. Yes, you heard it folks – the Conservatives have gerrymandered themselves into a permanent majority! Stand and unite (most likely behind Joyce Murray)! We must defeat
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Forum Ontario Poll: 32% OLP, 32% PC, 29% NDP
Forum Research has released a new poll for the provincial scene in Ontario, showing the Liberals somehow managing to tie with the PCs, even after all the news recently which would point towards giving the Liberals something of a negative trend. Forum Research (Ontario Provincial – February 27-28, 2013*)Ontario Liberal
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Calgary Centre By-Election Poll-by-Poll
So finally, Elections Canada has released their official poll-by-poll counts for the three by-elections we had last year in Calgary Centre, Durham, and Victoria. Two of these three by-elections were interesting, with Calgary Centre ending up forming as a three-way race between the Liberal’s Harvey Locke, the Conservative’s Joan Crockatt,
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: #LPCLdr Debate #4: My Ballot Begins to Form
(If you missed it and are interested, take a look over my review of the first, second, and third leadership debates.) This afternoon we saw the nine eight candidates running for leader of the Liberal Party duke it out once again, this time tackling issues ranging from Agriculture to Defense
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: The Utter Implosion of the BC Liberals Commences…
You thought they were first doomed following the HST fiasco.But they bounced back. Then, we all assumed they were done once Clark’s honeymoon ended and Cummins’ began, and we saw how incompetent the new Premier was. But they bounced back… sort of. Now, the third time out, I can’t see
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: The Newest Member of the Temporary Ad-Hoc Rainbow Coalition
For the third time since 2011, a member of the NDP’s caucus has left their party over reasons of apparent disagreement with their “principles.” And once again, its hard to imagine how these people decided to join up with the NDP in the first place if they disagree so much.
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Redistribution 2013 – Montréal
Finally, the Redistribution Commissions in Quebec and Ontario have come out with their reports, setting up the final stage of our redistribution process. You can view everything here at the Commission’s website, as well as check out some of my previous posts for the Commission Reports in British Columbia, Alberta,
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Revenge of the Ford
Hm, this probably isn’t good news: Rob Ford seen to be best of last 8 Toronto MayorsOne quarter say Rob Ford is the best of Toronto’s mayors going back to David Crombie (22%), followed by David Miller (19%), Mel Lastman (14%) and David Crombie (13%). Few give consideration to Barbara
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Angus Reid BC Poll: 47% NDP, 31% BC Lib
Angus Reid has a new poll out for the provincial scene in British Columbia, which doesn’t show much too movement but is interesting nonetheless. Angus Reid (BC Provincial – February 21-22, 2013)New Democratic: 47% (+1%) – 62 seats (-1 seat)BC Liberal Party: 31% (=) – 21 seats (+2 seats)Green Party:
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: The Day After I Signed Up as a Supporter…
… Marc Garneau came out with this. I remember Michael Ignatieff saying the same thing back during the 2011 campaign, and… yeah, it was silly then, and its silly now. Not that there isn’t a strategy behind it. Marc wants to position himself as the anti-Justin, the candidate that if
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Nanos Ontario Poll: 33.7% PC, 33.6% OLP, 26.5% NDP
Nanos Research has released a new poll for Ontario’s provincial scene, though technically its a poll that is a bit old, done in early February versus the most recent Forum poll, done on the 20th. So the levels of support we see in this poll are post-Wynne win, but not
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: And my #LPCLdr Endorsement Is…
This will be something of a rambling post, just so you’re forewarned – but I’ll try to keep it short. Ha, just kidding, its long as hell. But its important, so pay attention. When I joined the Liberal Party of Canada during the early start of the 2008 election, my
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Forum Ontario Poll: 36% PC, 29% Liberal, 28% NDP
Forum Research has released its February poll, and its first post-Wynne win poll, giving us Ontario Liberals great news that we’ve gotten our first lead versus the NDP since November 2012! Yay! We’re not totally dead! Even though the numbers we see give the Progressive Conservatives a huge leg up…
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Today in Liberal-bashing Media: Andrew Coyne
… who decides, like half of the country’s editorialists, to write off Justin Trudeau’s support as an example of the Liberal Party becoming a “personality cult.” I’m getting really sick of these people. While I’ve thought it in the past, this Liberal leadership race is not a coronation, a la
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Even Americans Like Our Senate Model
Well… sort of. From Political Wire: A group of Republican state representatives in Georgia would like to repeal the 17th Amendment and return the election of U.S. Senators to the state legislatures, the Douglas County Sentinel reports. The proposal requests that the U.S. Congress “begin action to repeal the 17th
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Dual Senate Polls Show Canadians Prefer Reform Over Abolishment
The National Post has been crowing today about a poll done by Ipsos Reid, which shouts that “more than one-third” of Canadians want the Senate abolished, a headline which is just a tad bit sensationalized, but is passable. I don’t have the exact link to the Ipsos Poll, due to
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Ekos Canada Poll: 29.3% Con, 26.3% NDP, 24.6%
In what I hope is the last Ekos poll out this week, Frank Graves’ polling company has released new results showing a hilariously low result for all three main parties, with no one reaching above 30% support nationally – except in a very special circumstance, which I’ll talk about in
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: #LPCLdr Debate #3: Finally, some action.
The third of five debates (which you can watch here) between the nine Liberal leadership candidates was held a couple of days ago, except this time it was so much better – mainly because yours truly was in the audience. Also because almost every candidate kicked ass and took a
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