The Conservative Party’s own polling shows a much closer margin than this latest Decima poll.
But note the typo—or misunderstanding of how apostrophes work—in this non-pajama-wearing professional journalist’s title (story written by Alexander Panetta of Canadian Press but the CP version doesn’t have this error; so I blame it on the National Post staff, because that’s where the story appears with this title). Should be Grits’:
Grit’s lead over Tories slimmer: poll
The federal Conservatives are climbing back after a bruising few months and have sliced in half the Liberals’ lead in public opinion, a new survey suggests.
[…] The new numbers support a trend reported in private Conservative polls and offer the party qualified hope for an election campaign that is either weeks or months away.
[…] The Tories trailed the Liberals by seven points nationally (36 per cent to 29) and by 10 points in Ontario (43 per cent to 33) in a three-week survey that ended Sept. 26. The NDP was at 17 per cent nationally.
[…] Decima’s results are based on rolling three-week averages. The latest portion, which was conducted Sept. 22 to 26, questioned 1,015 adult Canadians and is considered accurate to within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
The Conservative Party’s own polling suggests that the Liberals have the support of 32 per cent of decided voters outside Quebec, with the Conservatives running just one percentage point behind.
The poll, conducted by party pollster Praxicus Public Strategies, also reportedly shows an increasing portion of Ontario voters have switched from Paul Martin’s Liberals to the “Undecided” category. This according to a story at CTV.CA
The survey of 1,500 people between Sept. 15 and Sept. 23 is considered accurate within 2.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
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