Well now that’s odd.
The liberal-friendly CTV and Globe and Mail (both owned by liberal-friendly Bell Globemedia) poll just this week said something quite different. I blogged about how they gushed over their own poll which they commissioned to create their kind of news and how they gushed over the Liberal Party amidst their happy, happy news. THIRTEEN points ahead they claimed! 13!
“It’s good news for Prime Minister Paul Martin, as his favourability rating shows Canadians are warming up to him,” they gushed. Oh happy day!
But no a non-CTV, non-Globe and Mail poll done by Decima research shows that the Liberals are only FIVE points ahead, which is very similar to about three other polls I’ve mentioned on these pages recently, including one poll the Conservative Party did for themselves. And it’s less than HALF what the liberal-friendly CTV and Globe and Mail’s self-commissioned poll reports that the Liberals were ahead just this week!
That’s odd!
I even pointed out that (about the CTV Globe and Mail poll) “Their poll provided them with a rather strange contrarian result considering that the last few polls that I have seen have shown a positive popularity growth trend and a close race for the Conservative Party”.
Now Canadian Press reports that:
The federal Liberals’ lead over the Conservatives has shrunk to five percentage points, a new Decima survey suggests.
The Liberals held 34 per cent support and the Conservatives had 29 per cent, says the survey provided to The Canadian Press. Decima found a 13-percentage-point lead for the Liberals in a survey at the start of the summer, but said subsequent polls have indicated a declining trend.
That’s odd!
Somebody’s poll is completely out of wack. One poll is not like the others.
How odd.
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