When a poll has the Tories higher than a large majority of 2010 surveys, leave it to Jane Taber to try and spin it as bad news for the governing Conservatives. When the Liberals go up, she gets excited. When the Tories go up, they "cling" to a "five-point lead as poll exposes political rut". Jane, you are doing yeoman's work for Donolo. Any poll that has the Tories over 37% is great news for the party. You really need to grease the wheels to spin it in the other direction. Meanwhile a double digit win in Vaughan for the Liberals in 2008 has evaporated to a dead heat in the 2010 byelections. If the Liberals lose Vaughan, Iggy is going to be in big trouble.
Granted, that was Wednesday. By Thursday Liberal donor and pollster Frank Graves swang to the rescue like Tarzan with another outlier to get Jane excited. I wonder if any of that tax money the CBC is paying for these polls is going to be donated to the Liberal Party? Doesn't Frank always donate the maximum amount?
I did an analysis comparing the Pollster in 2008 and Ekos came in second. The one patter is everyone under polled the CPC.
ReplyDeleteIn the Rob Ford campaign many pollster suggested it was a horse race in the last two weeks.
The journos need drama and will look for anything to create some buzz.
The sad fact is nothing has changed in years. The LPOC have not fixed their funding problems and loss of support with grassroots or the ballots have not stopped.
The myth in the MSM is the West left, it was Ontario and Quebec that has dumped the Liberals. The west was a wasteland for the Liberals before the Reform existed.
The funding changes has changed the capacity tor raise money and fight campaigns. The LPOC have not fixed it.
The NDP in both times Lewis Broadbent made parliament work and took a big loss.
Layton needs to play this out differently and let Liberals fade away into the dustbin of history. Liberals could break new low of low 20's if enough people stay home the next time.
If NDP can improve by 1-2% they can reach them in popular support.
Well what does Nanos know!!
ReplyDeleteaccording to Frank Graves Liberal poll, lip service provided by Jane Taber:
''...The projections, based on a new EKOS Research poll released Thursday, show the two opposition parties are “tantalizingly close” to being able to combine forces and form a majority in the House of Commons were an election held today....''
Heh! Wasn't a LibDip coalition after the next election just a figment of PMSHs imagination,
the coalition boogeyman!
But wait, Frank's seat projections still have LibDips forming a minority
''...Together the two parties would have 142 of the 308 seats in the House of Commons – exactly what the Tories have now, falling just short of a majority...'
Jane and Frank, get a grip.
List the 30 seats Graves is projecting the CPC will lose and the Libs and Dips will gain (and not from each other).
link found on NNW, it's just too ridiculous to link to.
Its ridiculous, but its absolutely worth linking to. Its important to subject his biased, tainted work to daylight and let people know how completely out-to-lunch he is.
ReplyDeleteThe CTV should be embarrassed at the antics of Liberal activist jane Taber
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