We have a guest column today from Herman Gooden, a freelance columnist with the London Free Press. This is the second time Herman’s clear thinking has graced our pages, and today he makes sense of Prime Minister Harper’s opening days in office and the ridiculous media reaction to it.
Harper’s actions speak louder than words
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Recent polls indicate that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s approval rating is essentially unchanged since election day; a reading that scarcely jibes with what I’m seeing and hearing.
I would suggest that the quality of Tory approval has indeed been changing—perhaps the words “ripening” or “deepening” would best capture the sense—in ways that such polling can’t measure. While Harper may not be winning new converts to the Conservative cause—yet—I’ll bet I’m not the only Canadian who voted Conservative on Jan. 23 as the least disappointing option who is now saying, “Woah, this is going better than I thought it might.”
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