Author: Volkov

The provincial ridings of Argenteuil and La Fontaine, from which two Liberal MNAs had resigned –  David Whissell and the corrupt douchebag Tony Tomassi – are having élections partielles tonight, both of which I’m likely to say are going Liberal, but as an earlier post on Argenteuil noted, we could

On June 25th, the voters in the provincial district of Rothesay, New Brunswick, will be heading to the polls to vote in a new Member of the Legislative Assembly after Margaret-Ann Blaney, Rothesay’s representative since 1999, resigned in order to become CEO of Efficiency NB, as appointed by the current

Once again Nanos brings Liberals everywhere a small ray of hope in the form some slightly-trend-breaking numbers, in more ways than one. Nanos Research (Federal – May 26-31, 2012) New Democrats: 33.6% (+1.2%) – 116 seats (+1 seat) Conservatives: 33.5% (-1.2%) – 116 seats (-7 seats) Liberal Party: 24.9% (+1.6%)

Let’s face the facts right here and now: with the recent news that the Liberal executive will allow Bob Rae to run for the permanent leadership position (and suffice to say he’ll need to resign as Interim Leader to do so), the chances are fairly high that he’ll do exactly

I cannot stress how silly some of our elected politicians are sometimes. I don’t find people like Stephen Woodworth, or Alexandre Boulerice, or even good ol’ Gilles Duceppe “silly” – just disagreeable because they hold opinions contrary to mine. That’s no reason to facepalm, usually. Then we come to someone

This latest Forum Research poll for the provincial scene in Ontario has shown slight increases for the PCs and Liberals, and a drop for Dippers and Greenies – however all of it is more-or-less within the margin of error from their last poll. Forum Research (Ontario – June 5, 2012)

This time in the form of Jonathan Mousley, a government economist and former assistant to Liberal MP David Collenette, who is apparently a “proud lifelong Liberal” who is ready to lead a “rejuvenated” LPC. He also has tonnes of links to policies he’ll be presenting set up, they’re just not

This is what the current filibuster boils down to: The Underpants Gnomes’ Business Model I understand the purposes of the filibuster, I understand why people are protesting the budget and supporting what the Liberals and Greens, and eventually the NDP who jumped on board after-the-fact, but I don’t think anyone

It’s just one of a continuing series of polls to show the Liberals in third, though a very close third (in terms of the popular vote). It’s actually Environics second poll to show this kind of result, the first being this one I covered back in April, and there hasn’t

That’s right, you’ll now be able to hear the wisdom of Hermain Cain, Godfather’s Pizza CEO, former GOP Presidential contender, and misogynist, on the radio in Atlanta. This new media experience follows his first forays into media, with these very curious/low production/insane web ads. I see this all ending well.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s federal boundary commission has released the first draft of what redistribution in the province will look like, and it’s something of a favourable map for the Conservatives. Earl Washburn of the Canadian Election Atlas deserves credit for getting to it first, and he’s got a great overview

I was just trawling some of the Canadian minor party websites because, hey, I’ve got 20 minutes to kill before dinner, and I saw this in the banner of the United Party of Canada’s website: In case you’re not aware, the “bird” in the upper-left hand corner is Libby, symbol

And in case you were unsure, this poll could also prove that voters are more persuadable than you think by irrational arguments to nostalgia, as people apparently believe this: 45% of respondents said a low Canadian dollar that supports manufacturing was better for the country than a high dollar bolstered

Thus making it the third poll, after Ipsos and Abacus, to show the Conservatives at 37%, possibly indicating momentum for the incumbent government. Angus Reid (Federal – May 22-23, 2012) Conservatives: 37% – 154 seats New Democrats: 33% – 112 seats Liberal Party: 18% – 34 seats Bloc Quebecois: 7%

Fairleigh Dickenson University conducted a US-wide poll, asking respondents who solely watch/listen to certain media, ranging from Fox News to NPR to The Daily Show, to answer questions about international and domestic affairs, in order to ascertain how much exposure to actual news people are getting, and which media sources

… more or less. Just for some background, Andrew Prescott (a.k.a. “Christian Conservative,” hint hint) is one of the biggest names to come up during the investigation into the robocalls controversy. He was a key operative on Marty Burke’s 2011 campaign in Guelph, being a deputy campaign manager, and Elections

Sorry for my absence the last few days, but work and other things took over a small portion of my life. Abacus Data is now out with a new poll that shows eerily similar numbers to the Ipsos Reid poll of last week, a bit of a surprise considering the

A judge threw out the result of the 2011 federal election in the riding of Etobicoke Centre, which saw former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj defeated by a mere 26 votes by Conservative Ted Optiz last May. Thank God for our independent judiciary, folks. The entire case revolved around voters illegally

Forum Research has come out with a set of twin polls only two days apart, which if you read their summaries have apparently seen a massive shift of numbers, while in fact everything stayed the same. I don’t know what’s going on there, but whatever. Both polls show the PLQ

Indeed, except unfortunately Environics only released the numbers for Quebec and Ontario, because hey, why not hide the rest of the country from us? Seriously pollsters, don’t do this. That’s twice this month now. This means I can’t do a full projection, but you can get something of a sense