NDP statistically tied with Conservatives in the Polls

[cybercoma]

Read the article here

Harris-Decima puts the CPC @ 34% and the NDP @ 32%. It seems Mulcair was the best choice. Let's see if it sticks.

[Shady]

It seems Mulcair was the best choice.

Who?

[TheNewTeddy]

Meh. This is nothing. The NDP has been tied (tied-tied, not "close to being tied") with the Tories in two polls already in the past week and another last week, and, another just after Layton died.

Let me know when the NDP is in first.

[mentalfloss]

Forum research poll puts the NDP and Conservatives in a tie at 35% each.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1153428--poll-new-democrats-riding-mulcair-wave?bn=1

[Wild Bill]

Forum research poll puts the NDP and Conservatives in a tie at 35% each.

Hey, they just put on a circus! Of course they had a big bounce in the polls!

Let's revisit your post in a month or two and see what it looks like.

[Jerry J. Fortin]

All of this makes me very happy that there is no election on the horizon. Lets see what the numbers look like in a few more years. There is nothing we can do short of making a case for resignation. I have the feeling that if he can be tagged once, he will go down hard. Harper is no superman by any stretch of the imagination, but he is very much an astute opportunist. I do think he has a glass jaw though, maybe the F-35 is the uppercut needed to find out.

[Topaz]

I've been told by someone that he Tories are worried about the NDP leader because there's nothing in the closet for them to go after and he has a lot of experience in politics.That's probably why no attack ads and with both, the Liberals and the Tories going after each other they make the NDP, sound like the only clean and honest federal party, BUT anything could happen along the way to 2015.

[eyeball]

I've been told by someone that he Tories are worried about the NDP leader because there's nothing in the closet for them to go after and he has a lot of experience in politics.That's probably why no attack ads and with both, the Liberals and the Tories going after each other they make the NDP, sound like the only clean and honest federal party, BUT anything could happen along the way to 2015.

I expect the Tories will soon tar Mulcair with some innuendo before too long. Probably something sexual, illicit and entirely unprovable in nature. Red meat for the base - raw and bloody.

[Tilter]

Hey, they just put on a circus! Of course they had a big bounce in the polls!

Let's revisit your post in a month or two and see what it looks like.

Boy, if that campaign was a circus I'd hate to see what you would call boring--- maybe grass in the winter--- a movie about moss growth or "the race of the sloths"

[mentalfloss]

I've been told by someone that he Tories are worried about the NDP leader because there's nothing in the closet for them to go after and he has a lot of experience in politics.

That's what the next three years are for.

[Moonbox]

What's the use of polls 3 years away from an election? These are less than meaningless.

[mentalfloss]

What's the use of polls 3 years away from an election? These are less than meaningless.

Not at all.

It's good to keep up with trends. You can always refer back to spikes and dips and the basis for either. It's also a good reflection of the present state of support.

[PIK]

And when the lection does happen and people start to pay attention again, the NDP will drop like a rock. Once they start talking of gutting the military, closing down the oil sands and letting the unions run the country even more then they do now, it will be over.

[mentalfloss]

And when the election does happen and people start to pay attention again, the NDP will drop like a rock. Once they start talking of gutting the military, closing down the oil sands and letting the unions run the country even more then they do now, it will be over.

This is a load of fear mongering.

Edited April 5, 2012 by mentalfloss

[Moonbox]

This is a load of fear mongering.

It's exaggeration, but there's some basis for it. There's also a lot of history showing how much lower the NDP's support turns out to be come election time.

[capricorn]

And when the lection does happen and people start to pay attention again, the NDP will drop like a rock. Once they start talking of gutting the military, closing down the oil sands and letting the unions run the country even more then they do now, it will be over.

Today in Question Period, one NDP MP asked almost tearfully how many child care spaces could we pay for if we didn't spend all that money on F-35s. Day by day, the NDP agenda is coming to light.

[BubberMiley]

Today in Question Period, one NDP MP asked almost tearfully how many child care spaces could we pay for if we didn't spend all that money on F-35s. Day by day, the NDP agenda is coming to light.

Pssst...child care is only considered radical by CPC-bots.

[capricorn]

Pssst...child care is only considered radical by CPC-bots.

Suuure, let's put every infant and preschool child in government paid and operated day care and forget about buying any new planes. The statists have spoken.

[dre]

Suuure, let's put every infant and preschool child in government paid and operated day care and forget about buying any new planes. The statists have spoken.

No the "statists" had already spoken when they suggested we grow the cost of government, and make its security apparatus even MORE powerfull. The idea of having a large standing national military is as statist as it gets

[punked]

Today in Question Period, one NDP MP asked almost tearfully how many child care spaces could we pay for if we didn't spend all that money on F-35s. Day by day, the NDP agenda is coming to light.

It is a fair question. If we aren't spending money on guns how much can we spend on butter? Isn't that the age old question in politics?

[Evening Star]

I like the use of "coming to light" there, as if it had actually been a secret that the NDP tends to favour spending on social programmes and is not always that gung-ho about military spending; only now are we beginning to truly uncover this hidden agenda.

Edited April 5, 2012 by Evening Star

[Jack Weber]

Hey, they just put on a circus! Of course they had a big bounce in the polls!

Let's revisit your post in a month or two and see what it looks like.

Wait a minute!!!

The circus is in town??

Cool!!!

[punked]

I like the use of "coming to light" there, as if it had actually been a secret that the NDP tends to favour spending on social programmes and is not always that gung-ho about military spending; only now are we beginning to truly uncover this hidden agenda.

To be fair they are gung-ho about military spending when it is done right. The Ships that are going to be built in Canada that were just announced, the NDP has been talking about a national ship building strategy for like 10 years it just took the Conservatives that long to clue in there was support for it.

[capricorn]

I like the use of "coming to light" there, as if it had actually been a secret that the NDP tends to favour spending on social programmes and is not always that gung-ho about military spending; only now are we beginning to truly uncover this hidden agenda.

Coming to light, perhaps not for political junkies, but for Canadians who have only just started to pay serious attention to the NDP and their policy leanings. It's in that sense.

[BubberMiley]

Coming to light, perhaps not for political junkies, but for Canadians who have only just started to pay serious attention to the NDP and their policy leanings. It's in that sense.

That must explain why they are more popular than ever.