The last bastion
That's right folks! Our region is one of the last bastions for the federal Liberals, according to this Unimarketing/La Presse poll, even after obtaining "their worst score of the last 10 national polls". I guess we really do learn the hard way out here. Either that or we like the Liberals (regardless of their corruption), hate Harper's Tories (regardless of their surging strength nationally) or we aren't following the [political] trends like the rest of the country. Any thoughts?
(Hat tip Greg Staples)
Update
Speaking of Liberals in the maritimes, I see Andy Scott's run in Fredericton has officially come to a close.
Btw, a little bit of good news in that riding for Dion (after a disastrous last three weeks nationally), in that, the Green party candidate [Mary Lou Babineau] is now throwing her support behind Innes and the Liberal party of Canada. And just in time too as Jane Taber now has some additional material besides Marc Garneau to bragg about on her sunday show. At least it saves us from hearing her usual berating of Harper's communications director Sandra Buckler.
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Ah polls, last bastion of the perpetual political pundits! That's pretty bad polling, once again these people need to be reminded that we DON"T have Proportional Representation. They say softening liberal votes will benefit other parties, but that hasn't been the case. The conservatives keep getting more seats, so IF people switch votes from liberals to conservatives then they win the RIDING, even if they don't get any more of the popular vote.
Like ontario where 175,000 votes make the difference, it comes down to close ridings. Chretien had majority governments with not much more than the polled numbers here.
But I can't help but smile as I read that, you must be downright schizophrenic of late, especially considering that federal spending under Harper is almost one and a half times what it was under Martin, and almost four times as much as Chretien. You're suffering from 'partyitis', that condition where the party one naturally roots for behaves more like the opposition than the opposition ever did. And of course for corruption, Harper is well up past the liberals after only a couple years.
two words: Danny Williams.
Why is there no news on this???
There was news on ATV tonight regarding Andy Scott's departure.
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