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I Shaved My Head When Robert Stanfield Died

"...because Canadian politics is a baffling mystery that, when explained, still doesn't make sense, and has no bearing on anything." -Commenter on a Diefenbaker YTMND I made

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Maybe I'm the only one who finds this interesting, but:

Warning: All sources will be negatively spun so as to obscure the actual issue. Well... just the one really.

Watching a graph of the tracking polls at the Conservative Bashing Corporation website, the Liberals and NDP gained ground as a percentage of decided voters while the Bloc and Conservatives lost ground. What's interesting is that this coincided with a jump in the percentage of undecided voters. This would incicate that the softness in voting patterns actually lies with the Conservatives and Bloc. Also as the campaign defines itself we are starting to see more consistency with Liberal and NDP losses translating into BQ and CPC gains and vice versa. This would support John Duffy's theory advanced in the spring of a 'great election' turning around the issue of national unity.

Of course it could just be a rogue poll too, but I'm not so sure. As Allan Gregg said lamenting Joe Clarks loss in '80:

"The reasons for voting Conservative were six to one negative."

If Don Martin's reading, I'll offer him that 2-1 on a Conservative Minority he was asking for.

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