Christmas Shopping... for a Party

[August1991]

These current polls should be taken with a grain of salt since the polls specifically ask undecided people to say who they are leaning towards. Given the timing of this campaign during Christmas, I think this matters.

"It's actually about 48 per cent who say they either only have a leaning or they're going to vote but they don't have any idea who they're going to vote for,'' said Bruce Anderson, CEO of Decima Research.

Decima is running an on-line tracking survey of more than 10,000 people to monitor voting trends. The survey results so far suggest that only 43 per cent of those surveyed say they know how they'll vote.

Some are leaning one way or another, others are just putting it off.

"There's a lot of indecision out there and we think that indecision is going to persist for a while,'' Anderson said.

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Let's wait and see how this shakes down. I think there will be some (relatively minor) interest for the upcoming debates in Vancouver, and then general family and friend discussions over the holidays. People will only turn in earnest to the question of how to vote in the New Year.

I wouldn't short anyof the leaders yet. The fact that the campaign has been one of basic issues indicates to me that people are genuinely curious; they're Christmas shopping.