Canada Ping!
Posted on 09/16/2012 9:57:02 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
OTTAWA -- A quiet summer has given Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives some breathing room as they head Monday into what could be an acrimonious fall sitting of Parliament.
A new poll gives the governing party a seven-point lead over the Opposition New Democrats -- a cushion they may need if a second omnibus budget implementation bill sparks the same public backlash and all-out parliamentary warfare its predecessor did last spring.
The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey, which was conducted Aug. 30-Sept. 10, put Conservative support at 34 per cent of respondents, the NDP at 27, the Liberals at 24 and the Greens at seven.
The telephone poll of 2,007 Canadians is considered accurate within plus or minus 2.2 percentage points, 19 times in 20.
The results suggest Canadians may be slowly returning to "more traditional patterns of voting behaviour," said Harris-Decima chairman Allan Gregg.
Until now, New Democrats had been running neck and neck with -- or even slightly ahead of -- the ruling party, eating into core Conservative support among older, male and rural voters and core Liberal support among female and urban voters.
The latest poll suggests those voters are migrating back to their traditional choices, said Gregg, causing NDP support to sag and producing modest gains for the Conservatives and Liberals.
Read more: http://www.cp24.com/news/new-poll-gives-harper-seven-point-lead-on-ndp-1.957920#ixzz26eWUiu6q
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Canada Ping!
Good. Romney will need a like-minded coalition of responsible leaders if he’s to get us out of this mess. Harper and Netanyahu are just counting the days until they have a real leader in Washington.
I just posted my message as a QR code, in response to the QR code for the ping list. Okay, I admit, that wasn’t really such a clever or novel idea. The words can be read in the image properties:
I suspect that the separatist issue has a lot to do with it; ROC knows that the NDPs success was due to the nationalists who ditched the Bloc.
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