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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 [...]

And here's a possible indication why the Conservatives want the detainee story to go away...

Posted by Scott Tribe on December 14, 2009, at 1:48 pm |

..and why I mentioned in the prior blogpost of mine that the pressure needs to be kept on them on the Afghan detainees story. The first poll taken after the Afghan detainee flap and the revelations by Colvin and then the sudden reversal by General Natynczyk that yes, there was evidence that Afghan detainees [...]

Liberals call NDP's bluff

Posted by Scott Tribe on September 17, 2009, at 3:09 pm |

I was given a hint from an LPC member last night that this maneuver might occur, but that person wasn’t really sure the Liberals would go through with it. The party apparently decided to do so, however, and I think it’s a very clever strategy on forcing the NDP to make some choices:

The Liberals [...]

The fate of Harper's government appears to rest on Jack Layton and the NDP's shoulders

Posted by Scott Tribe on September 8, 2009, at 7:30 pm |

At least, that’s what it appears to me to look like, as these statements and actions from Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe today seems to indicate he and his party doesn’t intend to support the Conservatives on any non-confidence vote (at least, not beyond any theoretical Ways and Means Motion trickery the Conservatives might try [...]

Bottom Line: The NDP would do this kind of fundraiser if they were able to.

Posted by Scott Tribe on September 1, 2009, at 10:55 am |

A lot of sound and fury from some NDP’ers about the Liberals holding a fundraiser in Sudbury; the main beef being because it was a high priced event (550$ to attend) and somehow, that’s inappropriate because of a strike that has nothing to do with the Liberals in the first place.

A couple observations: [...]

How undemocratic of the New Democratic Party delegates (or some of 'em).

Posted by Scott Tribe on August 17, 2009, at 11:43 am |

I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but as a followup to my post of yesterday about how I felt the NDP delegates shot themselves in the foot by not even bringing the proposed name change discussion to a vote, we now have other delegates, including NDP MP Joe Cromartin when talking to the Toronto Star, accusing those opponents of the name change of an indirect filibuster so this motion wouldn’t even come up on the floor for discussion (read more). [...]

NDP shoots itself in the foot over the handling of the name-change issue.

Posted by Scott Tribe on August 16, 2009, at 2:17 pm |

So apparently, the NDP Convention “ran out of time” to discuss the question of whether to change the NDP’s name to just the Democratic Party. It wasn’t prioritized as an important issue, and delegates declined to change the order of votes to make it higher priority. So, apparently, it goes off to some committee [...]

NDP name change? How about SDP?

Posted by Scott Tribe on August 3, 2009, at 8:57 am |

At the upcoming NDP Convention, there seems to be a move afoot to drop the “new” from the NDP’s name and just change it to the Democratic Party. I presume this might be not just a nod to the fact the party isn’t really ‘new” anymore (being as they’ve had the name since 1961), [...]

OMG! The Liberals are fundraising!!!

Posted by Scott Tribe on March 2, 2009, at 9:25 pm |

NDP MP Chris Charlton needs better talking points then what she used on CTV today.. or the NDP does… because the reaction she gave was utterly hypocritical. (Read more) [...]

Sunday Election Campaign Musings. The NDP

Posted by Scott Tribe on September 28, 2008, at 11:42 am |

A couple of thoughts on the NDP this Sunday AM.

- Danielle posted a blogpiece at her site yesterday challenging Jack Layton’s premise that only he could stop Harper, by asking any NDP blogger/supporter to come up with 100 ridings they think the NDP could win, that would at least propel them to Official [...]

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

And here's a possible indication why the Conservatives want the detainee story to go away...

Liberals call NDP's bluff

The fate of Harper's government appears to rest on Jack Layton and the NDP's shoulders

Bottom Line: The NDP would do this kind of fundraiser if they were able to.

How undemocratic of the New Democratic Party delegates (or some of 'em).

NDP shoots itself in the foot over the handling of the name-change issue.

NDP name change? How about SDP?

OMG! The Liberals are fundraising!!!

Sunday Election Campaign Musings. The NDP

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