Campaign Research #AbVote Poll: 39.6% WRP, 30.3% PC
!CAUTION! Campaign Research is the firm behind the calls to Cotler’s riding last year, and is a known pro-Conservative (small c or big C) outfit, so take the next poll…
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The Budget and Andrea’s Options
First off, let me say that the Ontario Liberal minority budget of Premier McGuinty and Finance Minister Duncan is a work of austerity art, combining the right amount of tough…
Leger and Forum Poll Show Alberta’s Close Race
Leger Marketing and Forum Research have polls out, one which shows a close race and one that shows a blowout for the Wildrosers. Let’s go through them: Forum Research: WRP:…
#AbVote Riding to Watch: Edmonton-Riverview
Edmonton-Riverview is a nominally Liberal seat just west of the heart of downtown Edmonton, represented by former Alberta Liberal leader Kevin Taft (2004-2008) since 2001. The riding has voted Liberal…
Dmitry Medvedev Makes More Sense Than Mitt Romney
Lol, beautiful: “I recommend that all US presidential candidates, including the candidate you mention (Romney), do at least two things,” Medvedev told Russian reporters on the sidelines of a nuclear…
ThinkHQ #AbVote Poll: 36% PC, 33% Wildrose
Another pollster has put out this week showing another close race as compared to the trend from earlier this month and before, with the Wildrosers clearly benefitting. PC – 36%…
Ipsos Reid Poll of #AbVote – 38% PC, 38% WRP
Ipsos Reid released their first poll of Alberta since before the last election in 2008, showing a very outlier result compared to other pollsters, specifically on the position of the…
BC Liberal MLA Joins BC Conservatives as it’s First MLA
Well, it’s not as surprising as it seems – right now the BC Liberals are sitting below 30% in my polling average, so you may want to brace yourself for…
Alberta Votes… On April 23rd
And I’ve had my election page up for a month and half, go figure. But yes, Premier Alison Redford has called an election for the twenty-third next month, and it’ll…
Mulcair Shows Liberals the Way to Do It
There is one reason I like Thomas Mulcair. It isn’t his politics, which while closer to me than any other possible NDP leader save for maybe Martin Singh, I still…
What Mulcair’s Ascension Means
In the short-term, and in the annals of NDP history, it will mean a lot. The NDP membership, though it did it with low turnout (which, by the way, I…
Mind. Blown. Sort of. #NDPldr
Mulcair ended up first, and Topp ended up second; that was, sort of, expected. It was either going to be Topp or Nash in second. But no, Nash is fourth!…
#NDPldr Amateur Hour
I’ve spent my night at work reading up on the candidate speeches that I didn’t get to see from the NDP leadership convention, particularly as told by Andrew Coyne and…
Thank God for Québec Students
Maybe Ontario students will take a hint and keep an eye on our own tuition fees, which are highest in Canada (Québec’s are the lowest, so I’m not that sympathetic,…
NDP Tied-for-first in Canada for the First Time in 25 Years!!
… or not, since everyone seems to have forgotten the Harris-Decima poll from August of last year. But yeah, as the Globe article says, it’s nothing to get excited about.…
Can someone explain?
I’m offended as anyone else at the robocalls scandal, but this picture, put up recently by Saskboy and apparently influenced by the, erm, objective website Rabble.ca, deserves some explanation before…
#NDPldr Race – Turnout’s Gonna Suck
I just noticed that according to official (I think they’re official) estimates, only 40,000 NDP members have voted so far in their leadership race, out of 131,000. In other words,…
"The lower-downs don’t get a choice."
Uh… I like BCL, a lot. Great blogger, great addition to the LPC family. But really? “A merger of parties has to be like a merger of companies. The lower-downs…
More By-Election Talk: Port Moody-Coquitlam
Awhile ago (well, the end of January) I did an overview of the BC provincial riding of Chilliwack-Hope, where BC Liberal incumbent since ’96 Barry Penner had stepped down, triggering…
TorDan – What Does It All Mean!!?
So the final results of last night’s by-election in Toronto-Danforth shouldn’t surprise many, as Craig Scott of the NDP easily hung on, ending the night with a nearly 10,000-vote lead…