CPC 42 Lib 24 NDP 17 - BQ 47

[August1991]

In the Quebec election of 1981, there was a computer glitch and as the early returns came in, they showed the Union Nationale (a Quebec party now defunct) leading both the PQ and the Liberals. It was hilarious watching all the political analysts explaining the sudden resurgence of the UN with arcane theories about the obvious return of ... until the computer error was corrected about an hour later, and the results showed the PQ leading the Liberals (and the UN with basically zip).

I'm sure this poll is a computer glitch too. Paul Martin is having a bad dream, like in a Hollywood movie, and the wavy screen will return to the House of Commons as the roll call includes the support of Jack Layton on a confidence motion.

The Conservative Party has an 18-point lead over the Liberals in a new poll, giving them 42 per cent support nationally and setting possibly setting the stage for a major electoral shift.

CTV

[Boru]

In the Quebec election of 1981, there was a computer glitch and as the early returns came in, they showed the Union Nationale (a Quebec party now defunct) leading both the PQ and the Liberals. It was hilarious watching all the political analysts explaining the sudden resurgence of the UN with arcane theories about the obvious return of ... until the computer error was corrected about an hour later, and the results showed the PQ leading the Liberals (and the UN with basically zip).

I'm sure this poll is a computer glitch too. Paul Martin is having a bad dream, like in a Hollywood movie, and the wavy screen will return to the House of Commons as the roll call includes the support of Jack Layton on a confidence motion.

The Conservative Party has an 18-point lead over the Liberals in a new poll, giving them 42 per cent support nationally and setting possibly setting the stage for a major electoral shift.

CTV

Today's polls showed the Liberals closing the gap a little bit as far as I can see.

Liberal 30 SES CPAC

CPC 37

NDP 18

Bloc 10

Green 4

Liberal 30

CPC 36 EKOS

NDP 19

Bloc 12

Green 3

[Boru]

In the Quebec election of 1981, there was a computer glitch and as the early returns came in, they showed the Union Nationale (a Quebec party now defunct) leading both the PQ and the Liberals. It was hilarious watching all the political analysts explaining the sudden resurgence of the UN with arcane theories about the obvious return of ... until the computer error was corrected about an hour later, and the results showed the PQ leading the Liberals (and the UN with basically zip).

I'm sure this poll is a computer glitch too. Paul Martin is having a bad dream, like in a Hollywood movie, and the wavy screen will return to the House of Commons as the roll call includes the support of Jack Layton on a confidence motion.

The Conservative Party has an 18-point lead over the Liberals in a new poll, giving them 42 per cent support nationally and setting possibly setting the stage for a major electoral shift.

CTV

Today's polls showed the Liberals closing the gap a little bit as far as I can see.

Liberal 30 SES CPAC

CPC 37

NDP 18

Bloc 10

Green 4

Liberal 30

CPC 36 EKOS

NDP 19

Bloc 12

Green 3

I personally would'nt trust a CTV run poll very much. It would'nt be beyond them to phone 100 Albertas residents and call that arepresentation of the national intent...

[August1991]

I think the Strategic Counsel numbers are capturing (and maybe exaggerating) a shift in Quebec away from the Liberals to the Tories, combined with a smaller shift from the BQ to the Tories.

In Quebec, the poll puts the BQ at 47% and the Libs at 12%. 12%.

In the past, this Quebec poll result would have an effect on Ontario but maybe not this time.

[mcqueen625]

For all your loyal Liberal's out there in delusional-land, the free rise is over and Martin and his band of cronies is on their way to that place after politics, and I don't mean the Senate, I mean the unemployment line with a lot of other Canadians. Can't say as if it couldn't have happened to nicer people.

Martin will have to go back to ripping off Canada in another for by registering the rest of his fleet in Liberia and moving offshore himself like K.C. Irving did before he died.

[Boru]

For all your loyal Liberal's out there in delusional-land, the free rise is over and Martin and his band of cronies is on their way to that place after politics, and I don't mean the Senate, I mean the unemployment line with a lot of other Canadians. Can't say as if it couldn't have happened to nicer people.

Martin will have to go back to ripping off Canada in another for by registering the rest of his fleet in Liberia and moving offshore himself like K.C. Irving did before he died.

How are polls delusion land? I remember , going into the final days of the last election, that you Conservatives were jumping up and down that the Conservative time ahd come, Christ ahs returned, etc...etc... and they still lost. The election is far from over. A 6 point leadis anything but decisive.

As for Martin and his band of "cronies." I can't say I've heard a more idiotic catch phrase in quite a while. Thanks for the laugh.

[geoffrey]

How are polls delusion land? I remember , going into the final days of the last election, that you Conservatives were jumping up and down that the Conservative time ahd come, Christ ahs returned, etc...etc... and they still lost. The election is far from over. A 6 point leadis anything but decisive.

As for Martin and his band of "cronies." I can't say I've heard a more idiotic catch phrase in quite a while. Thanks for the laugh.

An 18 point lead however is pretty good evidence that the Liberals are in, at least, a little trouble.

But remember, their campaign is going well and is on-track. I'd hate to see their results if it wasn't.

The Liberals made a stupid mistake. They assumed the media would back them, give them favourable coverage and not ask questions. They did. And the Liberals lost hard because of it.

[tml12]

How are polls delusion land? I remember , going into the final days of the last election, that you Conservatives were jumping up and down that the Conservative time ahd come, Christ ahs returned, etc...etc... and they still lost. The election is far from over. A 6 point leadis anything but decisive.

As for Martin and his band of "cronies." I can't say I've heard a more idiotic catch phrase in quite a while. Thanks for the laugh.

An 18 point lead however is pretty good evidence that the Liberals are in, at least, a little trouble.

But remember, their campaign is going well and is on-track. I'd hate to see their results if it wasn't.

The Liberals made a stupid mistake. They assumed the media would back them, give them favourable coverage and not ask questions. They did. And the Liberals lost hard because of it.

I tend to buy into that argument...

[shoop]

Couple that analysis with the Liberals getting arrogant and snarky with the media when they *dared* to ask them hard questions. This has lead to the big loss in support for the Liberals.

The Liberals made a stupid mistake. They assumed the media would back them, give them favourable coverage and not ask questions. They did. And the Liberals lost hard because of it.

[kimmy]

All the latest, courtesy of Dose.

A Strategic Counsel poll provided on Wednesday night to CTV News and the Globe and Mail newspaper had the Conservatives ahead 41 percent to 25 percent -- a still-substantial lead that was two points below one the company released on Tuesday.

An EKOS Research Associates survey showed the Conservatives rising to 36.9 percent from 35.8 percent earlier this week and support for the Liberals falling to 27.2 percent from 29.6 percent. Fourteen percent of respondents remained undecided.

An SES/CPAC survey portrayed a much tighter race. It had the Conservatives holding steady at 37 percent, but support for the Liberals rising to 32 percent, from 30 percent on Tuesday. Sixteen percent had not yet made up their minds in the survey of 1,200 voters, which has a margin of error of 3.1 percent.

Things seem to be staying pretty stable as we head down the stretch drive. I mostly mention this for the novelty of linking to Dose, which is the little free daily that I grab before I get on the bus. Go, Dose!

-k

[Black Dog]

Things seem to be staying pretty stable as we head down the stretch drive. I mostly mention this for the novelty of linking to Dose, which is the little free daily that I grab before I get on the bus. Go, Dose!

-k

Ya do know that DOSE is a CanWestGlobal property, right? So it's "little" only in terms of its physical size and the quality of content.

[shoop]

I have never heard little used to describe the quality of an item.

Could you explain to us less intelligent Conservative types how that works BD?

Ya do know that DOSE is a CanWestGlobal property, right? So it's "little" only in terms of its physical size and the quality of content.

[kimmy]

Ya do know that DOSE is a CanWestGlobal property, right? So it's "little" only in terms of its physical size and the quality of content.

Well, also in the sense of being new and in the sense of being aimed at a youth-market and having young writers and staff.

-k

[Black Dog]

I have never heard little used to describe the quality of an item.

Could you explain to us less intelligent Conservative types how that works BD?

I'll even use it in a sentence:

"Dose is very little, and it also has very little in the way of content."

Well, also in the sense of being new and in the sense of being aimed at a youth-market and having young writers and staff.

Feh. I loathe Dose. I see it as little more than a vanity project for Paul Godfrey's boy and another big media assault on Canada's independent press. Rant over.

[August1991]

Daily Dose? Cute. Any relation to this?

[kimmy]

Feh. I loathe Dose. I see it as little more than a vanity project for Paul Godfrey's boy and another big media assault on Canada's independent press. Rant over.

Fair enough. Edmonton doesn't really have much of an independent press, except for "See" magazine, which is basically just an entertainment weekly.

-k