The liberal-left-friendly newspapers are fighting to claim varying degrees of glorious Liberal Party victory—one more than the other.
One, the Canwest Global conglomerate, is liberal-friendly generally. The other, the Toronto Star, is overtly left-friendly generally. Together, they’re like two peas in a liberal-left pink pod.
The poll that the Toronto Star commissioned through EKOS Research has a NINE point lead for the Liberals in their poll. The poll commissioned by Canwest Global through Ipsos-Reid has the Liberals with less than half of that —FOUR point lead.
Note the tone of each article as they boast of their election prediction prowess—even the headlines expose a hideously dichotomy.
Canwest Global division of the liberal-left:
Liberals sliding: poll
OTTAWA—The election campaign that begins next week will be a tight race between the Liberals and Conservatives thanks to deep public cynicism over how Prime Minister Paul Martin’s government has resorted to a massive spending spree to attract votes, a major new poll has found.
The Ipsos-Reid survey, conducted for CanWest newspapers and Global National, found that many Canadians have been unimpressed with the Liberals’ performance in recent days and weeks.
The race for voter support has tightened in just the last week alone.
The governing Liberals now have the support of 34 per cent of decided voters (down two points from an Ipsos-Reid poll a week earlier), while the Conservatives stand at 30 per cent (up by three points), Jack Layton’s NDP remains unchanged at 16 per cent, Gilles Duceppe’s Bloc Quebecois is at 15 per cent (up by two points), and the Green party is at five per cent (down by one point).
[…] Ipsos-Reid surveyed 1,000 adult Canadians by telephone Nov. 22-24. A sample of this size has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
The Toronto Star division of the liberal-left:
Liberal majority ahead?
OTTAWA—The Liberals are heading into the election campaign with a majority victory in sight and a lead of almost 10 percentage points over the second-place Conservatives, a new Toronto Star poll says.
Recovering from the negative impact of Justice John Gomery’s sponsorship report, the Liberals stand at 38.7 per cent of voter support, while the Conservatives have 29.4 per cent and New Democrats have 16.9 per cent, according to EKOS Research Associates Inc.
[…] The poll results are based on telephone interviews with 802 adults between Nov. 22 and Nov. 24. The margin of error is plus-or-minus 3.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. The margin of error increases for regional breakdowns of the results.
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