Except it is not fair to compare actual voter share with a later poll result. The poll's undecideds have to go somewhere on election day, and it is possible that the undecideds will shake down to Stay-Home, Liberals, and Not-Liberals in such a way that an election result may boost the actual Liberal results.

Paul made no such claim. All he'll say is Akin sits where food is sold.

well now that would be the logic around why the RinC program appeared to favour conservative ridings….but nobody wanted to listen to that one….except maybe George Smitherman.

Anyway politics is politics and spin is the use of fact to support an opinion as opposed opinions being derived from facts.

But Akin is clearly conservtive stooge from the planet "V"

Correct…..and stating that would be impartial buit hammering the government for lack of information would be bang on

The really scary thing that those numbers could mean, if you're a Liberal supporter, is that voting Liberal is no longer the "default voting option" for vast swaths of Canadians the way it once was. Many commentators have talked about how that is a big part of Harper's Grand Plan, i.e., to make the Tories into a sort of consensus party, in effect to replace the Liberals in that respect. I've always been skeptical, but who knows . . .

What does that tell you?

It tells me that Liberals no longer see themselves as "Canada's Natural Governing Party".

"Two years ago, there would be panic in the streets at that number, but now it is met with a shrug. "

Yes, well it's met with a shrug because Ian Davey, David Smith, Warren Kinsella et al. are all confident that:

1. This whole Tory government thing is just a bad dream, and we'll all wake up tomorrow and the Good Old Days of Liberal hegemony will be back.

OR

2. The Magic Bullet will appear any day now, i.e., the thing that will magically come along and make Canadians finally realize that the Tories are utterly evil and must be immediately turfed and replaced with Canada's Natural Governing Party. I think right now Kinsella et al. are convinced it's this stimulus spending thing — I mean, it's sorta like Adscam/Gomery, isn't it? Isn't it?

It shouldnt report by riding, a political designation that is irrelevant outside the HoC. It is normal administartion to report it by name/project number, description, location (more on this in a second) and status (i.e. pending, approved, interim funding, complete)

On location….this is a real problem, because it cuts to how this was decided….is it by the address of where the project is taking place (how do you define a road improvement or subway) or by the municipality that initiated the project?

Its harder than it looks, if only to decide what to put in the database. But one would think they would put the info in one place, whatever the info is…..it sort of is with their map, but I dont know if that covers it all.

Then you have another question of how much money do you spend on reporting, a stimulus project all its own.

So what does he know if he pleases himself?