New poll: Harper's Cons nowhere near majority numbers
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Mon Feb 8, 2010 12:27pm EST
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Conservatives have retained just a slim margin over the Liberal
Party, according to a Nanos poll released on Monday.
The survey has the Conservative lead shrinking in the eight prior weeks from more than 9
percentage points to 1.7 points. Other polls have shown the Liberals slightly ahead.
The Conservatives had been as much as 15 points ahead in the autumn, after the Liberals
tried to bring down the government and force an early election.
When the Liberals backed down, the margin began to shrink and then it virtually collapsed
when Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper arranged at the end of December for the
temporary suspension of Parliament until after the Vancouver Olympics. The opposition
charged that he was trying to evade accountability.
Nanos put the Conservatives at 35.6 percent support, the Liberals at 33.9 percent, the
leftist New Democrats at 16.4 percent and the separatist Bloc Quebecois at 8.5 percent.
The Greens, who have no seats in Parliament, are pegged at 5.6 percent.
The Conservatives won the October 2008 election with a strengthened minority, but still
require the support of one of the three opposition parties to stay in power. The Liberals
say they have no intention of bringing the government down now.
Nanos polled 1,002 Canadians from January 29-February 4, including 783 decided voters. The
margin of error for the larger sample is 3.1 points 19 times out of 20, and the margin for
the decided sample is 3.5 points.
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Harper's use of prorogation is the equivalent of
MArtin's Adscam hor potato.
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"The Doctor" <doc...@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote in message
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> Harper's use of prorogation is the equivalent of
> MArtin's Adscam hor potato.
You've forgotten already? 'Adscam' was under Chretien's reign - not Martin's. Martin was
just foolish enough to think that a full-blown inquiry would clear the air around the
Chretien Liberals. Instead, the Conservatives (led by the blood-sniffing Harper) jumped
on it like flies on shit. Had it been a Conservative scandal, they would have just buried
it with prorogation and shutting down media interviews.