Your Choice For Canada’s Next Top Soldier Is? (POLL)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is reportedly involved in the selection of Canada’s next top soldier, the Chief of Defence Staff.
Polls
Trudeau’s Poll Position
Many Canadians polled have heard of this man It’s no secret that Liberals love power above all else, so it’s hard for any Liberal to stay immune to Trudeaumania when…
Fun with headlines, etc.
“Liberal leadership: Justin Trudeau could lead Liberals to first place, new poll shows.” Um, what? I read this report twice. But nowhere do I see in that Star report anything…
Are pollsters going to muddle the cooperation issue yet again?
It seems that our pollsters have difficulty in appreciating that voters are sophisticated, and appreciate the differences between the choices facing them. Voters understand the differences between (1) an outright…
Question for Liberals isn’t should we merge, it’s should we exist
An Ipsospoll released over the weekend claiming a majority of Liberal and NDP supporters (voters, not necessarily activists) favour merging the parties has re-ignited the debate about whether or not…
Liberal pollapalooza
Are you enjoying the headlines of the past few days? An Ipsos-Reid online poll of 1,000 respondents taken from June 5-7 seems to be generating a fair bit of content…
Brief thoughts on Bob Rae running or not running
There was a bit of a dustup online (amongst Liberals anyhow) over this story CBC broke yesterday: Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae will be permitted to run in his party’s…
A winning essay on national media coverage of the 2011 federal election
This is a brilliant piece of writing by Mark Brister: “National media coverage of the 2011 federal election was a failure.” Not sure if it’s getting much coverage but there’s…
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…
The Third Way
The latest Ipsos poll paints a rather dreary picture of Liberal fortunes, with what was once the natural governing party languishing more than 15 points behind both the NDP and…
The Leadership Narrative
Way back when, a few months after the last federal election, I replied to the Susan Delacourt’s “Is the Liberal Party dead?” question, echoed ad nauseum in the nation’s press,…
The CPC is taking the NDP rise in the polls…
… quite well, I’d say… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Friday flipping
-Young Liberal Zach Paiken asserts that Canada is becoming more conservative – therefore, Liberals must follow that trend to get re-elected one day. I don’t see any polls or statistics…
‘Macho Man’ Mulcair displaces Stephen ‘The Warrior’ Harper amongst men
The NDP’s steady progress in acceptability is ongoing, and the Harper Conservatives must be wondering what on earth they can do to smear Thomas Mulcair and the socialist hordes. Despite…
NDP Lead Over The Conservatives Growing
The last 3 federal polls show the NDP consistently in the lead, ahead of the Conservatives (1 Forum and 2 Harris-Decima polls). The latest Harris-Decima poll has the NDP lead…
Federal HD Poll: 34% NDP, 30% Con, 20% Lib
It’s an interesting little poll, for some reason currently lacking a proper link to its official PDF file, but Harris-Decima was nice enough to lay out the entire poll in…
What Does it Mean!?
It means nothing. It’s a poll, one of many, that shows the NDP leading the Conservatives as the Cons deal with a month of bad news (F35s, economy, robocalls, you…
Renewing Raj’s Contract
I’ve been thinking. I want to renew Raj’s contract–for leader of the Alberta Liberals. He has a nose for politics, knows exactly what the party needs to build in terms…
Harper hitting new lows
The talk of the day, the Nanos poll on leadership numbers. Nice to see Canadians seem to be factoring in the major scandals of the past month or so on…
Tom Mulcair And NDP In The Lead, Confidence In Harper Plummets
Two polls were released today: Forum (April 25 – sample of 1744), and Nanos (April 18 – sample of 1200). The Forum poll, having a much larger sample, is the…