Last Poll of 2011 – 36.5% Con, 28.7% NDP, 25.6% Lib
This is, of course, a lovely Nanos poll which shows the Liberals somewhat dropping from heights we shouldn’t be at in our current state to more-or-less reasonable levels, though as…
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Talking to Americans
RT takes to the streets of Manhattan in their own little “Jay Walking” segment to quiz “average” Americans about the world around them… The results are predictably appalling, but before…
Frank Luntz: Xmas C-SPAN
Brilliantly evil wordsmith, Republican pollster and Fred Flintstone look-alike Frank Luntz holds forth on C-SPAN’s Christmas program about the current state of politics in America. (It’s kind of sad… but…
Great American Debate (With a Poll!)
Hard to believe that’s not necessarily an oxymoronic construction, I know, despite the terminology having been debased by countless so-called “debates” as part of the contrived circus/televised horse-race that is…
Voodoo Polls Cont’d
Since last post, Abacus Data has come out with a new poll that gives the opposite of what Nik Nanos is showing, with a healthy second place position for the…
Gingrich & Romney: The Tale of the Intensity Chart
A very interesting chart by Gallup measures the intensity of support of Republicans of their candidates for the presidency. It takes the positives and deducts the negatives. Since July the…
Nanos = Voodoo Poll?
I have huge respect for Nik Nanos and his firm, but this recent poll is just a bit much, even for a die-hard Liberal: Con – 35.6% (-1.1%)Lib – 28.1%…
The reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated
There’s a lot of excitement in Liberal land over the latest Nanos poll: CPC 35.6%Lib 28.1%NDP 27.3%Green 3.9%BQ 3.9% As much as I’d love to jump up and down and…
A new poll
“Federal Liberals gain on NDP, Conservatives, poll finds.” Let’s fight the “it doesn’t mean anything” meme before it starts, shall we? I will venture to say it means something. It’s…
NDP supporters want a Quebec leader and electoral cooperation with Liberals
A surprising finding from the latest Ipsos Reid poll, and a very disconcerting one for Brian Topp.A large majority (58%) of NDP supporters believe that the next leader should hail…
First Post-Three-Peat Poll
Ontario News Watch has an Innovative Research poll that puts all parties within statistical margin of errors of the October 6th result, but Dalton McGuinty's Liberals have edged up ever…
“Now we can confidently say there is trend in favour of Bob Rae at the current time”
Lol, what?“Nycole Turmel hasn’t really caught the imagination of voters. ... She is there minding the shop but her personal numbers are not necessarily moving.” This means, however, that Mr.…
And the winner is…
So, which pollster had it right?I recorded the last polls of the election here.Here they are compared to the results. Source Liberal PC NDP Green Dates Details RESULTS 37.6% 35.4%…
Polls aplenty in Ontario
To recap in the last day, Ekos, Nanos and Ipsos all indicate the Liberals are close to or will get a majority (Ipsos even went so far as to say…
“The Tories are not going to win. This campaign is all but finished"
Those are the words of Ipsos' John Wright.If Tim Hudak is worried about a Liberal-NDP coalition, there's only one way to prevent it at this point - and it's not…
Ipsos Gives OLP 10-point lead, supports Ekos
Wow, who would think you would see this from Ipsos Reid, on an incumbent premier who has not had the best eight year legacy attached to his name?A ten-point lead,…
Powerful reason why Horwath should support PR now: her party is bleeding votes
The latest EKOS poll shows one dismaying finding that Andrea Horwath should respond to if she wants to end up on Friday in a position to influence the way the…
Ekos – OLP – 37.8, PCPO 30.6, ONDP 22.7
Ah, good ol' Ekos - just when you needed a new spin thrown your way.The Liberal lead over the Progressive Conservatives appears to be solidifying as the parties approach the…
The closing days of the Ontario campaign
Only a few days left until Ontario voters get out to vote for their next provincial government, and the polls that came out on the weekend still had a neck…
How NDP Andrea Horwath could secure PR within a few months
The latest compilation of poll of polls by threehundredeight shows that it would appear that Liberal support is solid, PC support is sliding, and NDP support is on the rise.The…