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Well,well,well – What have we here. A virtual tie

Posted by Scott Tribe on September 2, 2010, at 9:32 am |

It’s only one poll, and some of the regional shifts/swings seem dramatic, which may be the signs of a very volatile electorate, but we now have a virtual tie in the newest Ekos poll released today.

An interesting analysis from Frank Graves on the reasons he thinks the numbers have shifted the way [...]

Maybe there really ARE Canadians who care about the Census.

Posted by Scott Tribe on August 5, 2010, at 9:02 am |

You might recall that Canadian Press report a few days ago where unnamed Conservative MP’s/sources dismissed the census controversy as an issue that Canadians don’t care about, and that it would fade away.

It may, but before it does, it appears to have caused a big hit in Conservative popularity, at least in the [...]

A prelude blogpost

Posted by Scott Tribe on June 24, 2010, at 12:54 pm |

I thought I’d put up a brief blogpost this afternoon, as there will be a more significant blogpost later after 4 pm EDT – a bit of a prelude in itself, which is all I’ll say at the moment about that.

Somethings catching my attention today:

-When you’re in a minority government situation, [...]

Interesting last Ekos poll and commentary before Parliament’s summer break

Posted by Scott Tribe on June 18, 2010, at 2:07 pm |

This poll is a day old in its release, but I found it noteworthy for a couple of reasons:

One reason is this:

(This) EKOS poll gives the Conservatives 30.5 per cent support from Canadians, compared to 26.3 per cent for the Liberals. The Tories have been sliding over the past few weeks, losing [...]

No Olympic Bounce in new Ekos poll

Posted by Scott Tribe on March 4, 2010, at 11:22 am |

The small lead for the Conservatives over the Liberals remains the same as in last week’s Ekos poll. In fact, both of the 2 major parties numbers marginally dropped.

With that, and with the fact 2 other polls have shown the same small lead/deadlock, I believe it’s not unfair in presuming/asserting that one can [...]

Best description ever of Harper's prorogation mistake.

Posted by Scott Tribe on February 4, 2010, at 2:00 pm |

Realizing that prorogation was the worst political mistake since Pierre Trudeau handed John Turner a list of his friends to find jobs for, the PMO is starting to throw furniture out the windows, in a vain attempt to get the Langevin Block to levitate.

Courtesy of Greg over at Mr Sinister, who has a [...]

Ekos poll: Liberals take the lead (half point); detects 'significant shift'

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 28, 2010, at 12:24 am |

This Ekos poll was released tonight, and you’ll be seeing plenty of it on CBC later today, since it was done for them. The Liberals have crept into a “statistically insignificant lead”, but a lead nonetheless – the first since August 2009. The numbers are:

31.6% LPC 31.1% CPC 14.6% NDP 11.0% Green 9.1% [...]

Yet another poll release showing there are lots of anti-prorogue elitists in Canada

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 14, 2010, at 8:52 am |

Ekos released a poll today, and again, the Conservatives and Liberals are in a Margin Of Error dead heat, as per Kady O’Malley:

Conservatives: 30.9 (-2.2) Liberals: 29.3 (+1.5) New Democrats: 15.3 (-0.7) Green: 11.9 (-1.6) Bloc Quebecois (in Quebec): 40.7 (+2.5) Other: 2.3 (-) Undecided: 14.0

Some analysis from Ms. O’Malley:

Any way [...]

EKOS poll: The first hints of discontent with Harper's prorogue?

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 7, 2010, at 8:36 am |

Kady O’Malley of CBC details the EKOS poll that has just come out this AM, which shows a Conservative drop and the Liberals now only trailing the Conseratives by 5 percentage points:

Conservatives: 33.1 (-2.8) Liberals: 27.8 (+1.1) NDP: 16.0 (-1.0) Green: 13.4 (+2.2) Bloc Quebecois: 9.8 (+0.6) Undecided: 14.7

Regionally, the Liberals have [...]

The time isn't to panic.. the time is to rethink strategy.

Posted by Scott Tribe on October 8, 2009, at 1:28 pm |

I won’t sugar-coat my views on things; the latest set of polls are not good for those of us in the Liberal camp. The latest includes today’s Ekos poll release, that has a few of us Liberal-allied blogs smarting. I’m sure the Liberal politicians and strategists are smarting even worse.

I have a few [...]

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Well,well,well – What have we here. A virtual tie

Maybe there really ARE Canadians who care about the Census.

A prelude blogpost

Interesting last Ekos poll and commentary before Parliament’s summer break

No Olympic Bounce in new Ekos poll

Best description ever of Harper's prorogation mistake.

Ekos poll: Liberals take the lead (half point); detects 'significant shift'

Yet another poll release showing there are lots of anti-prorogue elitists in Canada

EKOS poll: The first hints of discontent with Harper's prorogue?

The time isn't to panic.. the time is to rethink strategy.

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