Hardly Decimated: (32/27/19/12/8)

The NDP and Greens are holding steady. Not good for the Libs. Not good at all.

Hardly devastating however, Boudica, considering where these #’s were -considering this poll showed a 15 point Cons lead a week ago, I’m not exactly scared by a 5 point one. We still have a few days to go.. and voters from those two parties historically switch to the Liberals on election day.

Now you see it – now you don’t!
Boudica – Jack is throwing everything including the kitchen sink into his ads. at the mo – AND BLEEDING WOMEN SUPPORTERS…
According to the friendly grey haired guy (whose name I forget) the movement among the subgroups are very interesting – Harper’s uptick today is almost exclusively male – he has been steadily losing women and voters over 50+ – precisely the ones guaranteed to come out to the polls…so – his Sweater Boy image obviously did not convince the target market he was seeking to convert.

Oops – I meant the grey haired guy on CBC Newsworld..
And as for Jack – women are the core of his party – not good for Jack…

No problems Kady. I was hoping that was another national poll you were looking at but no such luck, I guess.

I find it awfully weird that supporters seem to be moving between Libs&Green or Con&NDP. I assume they are one issue voters and see things that I clearly don’t.

“comment by boudica on Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 11:13 am:

The NDP and Greens are holding steady. Not good for the Libs. Not good at all.”

Who’s to say? I think it’s better for the Libs to lose this election to a Harper minority, and install Ignatieff as leader.

The nightmare scenario for me was a Harper majority. No way that’s happening now.

Besides, another 1.5-2 years of Harper minority might just convince Green and NDP supporters that they need to give the Libs a shot.

Liberals deleriously happy about running 1% below their all time worst showing in history.

Here’s something weird…

“Leadership-Positive Feelings”: Duceppe highest at 59% for Canada. May and Layton in low 50s, Harper at 42, Dion at 40.

Wow… LPC is tied with the Greens in 3rd/4th place in BC. Wouldn’t that be something if the LPC finished 4th!

Just saw the Q&A in Halifax where Dion was asked tougher questions and interupted when he started his “family of 4 making 60,000 will get $1400 income tax (about half of the beer and popcorn child support)”.

Mansbridge started open season when he gave Dion the opportunity to delay Green shift with the global economic crisis… but the professor said that even though he needs the advice of the experts to reduce the amount withdrawn from the RRIFs, the Green Shift was all systems go to save the economy. As well he said Canada would be a lot better if they put Green Shift in 10 years ago. When will someone call him on this as being a critism of the greatest Finance Minister in the History of Canada. Obviously in Dion’s world Martin screwed up big time with this missed opportunit. Through the blame at the environment Minister and Chretien as well.

At the press conference he basically called Kevin Page’s Afganistan incremental cost presentaion a lie. He said the real numbers would be revealed when he was Prime Minister. Does he not get along or believe the the competence / integrity of the Civil service?

I think and hope the free ride is over. Up until now the media has handled Dion with kid gloves, but the spectre of PM Dion must have scared them into doing due diligence in vetting his credentials.

On the real incremental Afghanistan costs:

Mr. Page seemed satisfied with his numbers and was pleased with the quality and effort of his team.

Should the Linda Keen level bureaucrats that were unable or couldn’t provide the numbers be held accountable and replaced? There will be a list of Green Shift supporting economists looking for deputy minister appointments :).
Is that how Dion will get the real numbers? Or will the unavailable numbers just magically come out because the civil service just likes the Liberals? Either way sounds like there is something wrong when it takes 6 months to extract this info.

I haven’t seen the list of the hundred or so economists supporting the Green shift. I wonder if their credentials stand up as well as those of the 5000 or so scientists whose petition says that man has negligible impact on Global warming.

Interesting to note that Dion’s trust and competence, and vision ratings are going up, while Harper is down on all of them.

The possibility of a Liberal-NDP coalition government really has me scared for the future of the country. Considering how slim the Conservatives plurality was last time I think that’s a real possibility now.

The first truly leftist and green federal government in Canadian history implementing wildly populist and recklessly experimental policies against the backdrop of an unprecedented global economic downturn (which Canada is in good position to weather due to decades of prudent small-c-conservative government)… I’m concerned :(

What I find hardest to understand is how so many sane, centrist Liberals (the Chretiens, Martins, Manleys, etc. types) are sticking with the party despite it’s radical shift leftward and green-ward under Dion. Do these people have that much attachment to some meaningless ‘brand’ that they’d follow it over a cliff?