BC Election Results Vindicate Many
Premier Clark’s astounding election victory deserves to be celebrated. Almost nobody thought she had a shot, and the reports on her chances were dismal. The polls were bad. The media…
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With Liberals in rear-view mirror, conservative deep thinkers ponder greener look
Your blogger offers Preston Manning a couple of big ideas for conservatives to think about. Below: Liberal Justin Trudeau, pollster Andre Turcotte. OTTAWA While the Forum Research polling company was…
Kathleen Wynne’s Done Good
Full disclosure. It’s A Forum Research poll. That said, I can’t but like the underlying message: …the Liberals would again win 53 seats in the 107-member house with the Tories…
On Monday in Calgary, will the Tories come second … or third?
Conservative candidate Joan Crockatt campaigns in Calgary while a supporter covers his face in embarrassment. (Joke.) Below: The winner of Monday’s by-election, as forecast by Perfesser Dave, Chris Turner. The…
Will the Tories meet their Waterloo on the field at Calgary Centre? One can only hope!
Napoleon after the Battle of Waterloo. Events in the Calgary Centre by-election may not turn out to be exactly as illustrated. Below: Liberal Harvey Locke, Conservative Joan Crockatt and Green…
They Call Them Political Parties…
…because you always have to look like you’re having one. And Justin does. Sure his party sometimes looks like its going to become an all night kegger, but he keeps…
Polls on Liberal (would-be) contenders and NDP leads.
You might have seen a poll out in the past couple of days from Forum Research stating that if Justin Trudeau became Liberal Party leader, he’d receive 39% of the…
Ontario NDP virtually tied with PCs
A new Forum Research Ontario tracking poll is out. The results show the NDP and PCs in a virtual tie, with the Liberal support continuing to plummet. Horwath’s and Hudak’s…
A New Poll From Forum
…who poll relentlessly, if not always accurately: In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,720 Canadians 18 years of age or older, one third…
NDP Rise To 37%, Conservatives Drop To 30%
Since Tom Mulcair was chosen to lead the party back in March, the NDP has maintained a strong support across Canada, which has continued to grow. The opposite is true…
Shifting left?
As they always say, the only poll that counts is election day, but polls are a useful barometer of how the public is feeling in a snapshot in time, and…
Harper and Cons reputation taking a bit of a beating – a year too late.
Two new polls out today – one from Forum Research in the Star shows the NDP ahead of the CPC by 3%.. the other by Nanos at the Globe shows…
It’s election day and Alison Redford’s hole card is all she has left: Is it an ace or is it junk?
Alberta Premier Alison Redford, not exactly as illustrated notwithstanding the Stetsons, has only one good card left to play. Is it an ace, or is it junk? We’ll find out…
Ontario NDP Overtake Liberals, Horwath Riding High
The latest Forum Research poll has the Ontario NDP overtaking the Liberals in support and Andrea Horwath continuing to be, by far, the most popular of the 3 main party…
On regional impacts
Back here, I pointed out the prairie numbers from Forum Research’s poll about Canada’s federal leaders as an indication that the NDP has plenty of opportunity to grow after electing…
Forum Poll of Ontario: 34% PC, 30% Lib, 30% NDP
That’s a close race for sure, though despite tying the Liberals for second, the NDP remain in third place. Forum Research: Prog. Cons: 34% – 42 seats Ont. Liberal: 30%…
Forum Poll Post-Mulcair: 35% Con, 35% NDP
Forum seems to always lead the trends these days. The above numbers are the highest the NDP have been since the late ’80’s or early ’90’s, a good sign for…
Be careful what you wish for: Wildrose may be on cusp of victory in Alberta campaign
Alberta PC campaign tactician Stephen Carter, left, illustrates for Premier Alison Redford and Deputy Premier Doug Horner how he plans to counter recent Wildrose Party gains. Alberta political operatives and…
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…
Forum, Nanos Polling in Ontario Battle it Out
Two polls provincially in Ontario talk about, the first one being Nanos’ Research poll (they did one in November as well that didn’t make the radar), and the next being…