During the election I suggested in a blog entry that the Harper Conservatives adopt their own jet engine as their party mascot. They declined to comment on it, but I think they did do that just the same.
The liberal media keeps commissioning these polls to make news—each time indicating an increase in popularity by the Conservatives, and each time defying their own columnists and editorial whines which always seem to take on a cautionary tone warning about the Conservatives falling out of favor among the electorate. For all the right reasons! Like the Prime Minister getting a new car which looks just like the U.S. President’s car, thus making it an “American-style” car, unlike the Bolivian Presidente, and “too much like Bush’s car”; the Prime Minister’s belly getting nearly as large as their own; the media not having their way with the Prime Minister and instead having to appear as though they respect our Prime Minister despite his being a Conservative; and of course that darned war in Afghanistan which despite them and their dire stories of doom and gloom, proves popular with Canadians.
Harper has support to win majority
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government is so popular with Canadians that it would be swept back into power with a majority if an election was held now, a new poll has found.
The Ipsos Reid survey, conducted for CanWest newspapers and Global National, was done over three days last week just as Harper’s Tories were touting their accomplishments after 100 days in office as a minority government.
The poll found the Conservatives are enjoying their highest level of public support in nearly 20 years since Brian Mulroney’s government was returned to office with a second majority victory in the November 1988 election.
‘‘Basically what’s happening is that Stephen Harper is recreating the Brian Mulroney majority,’’ Ipsos Reid president Darrell Bricker said in an interview.
‘‘And the way he is doing that is by breaking through in the province of Quebec. It’s very much that kind of coalition Quebec and the West.’‘
Currently, 43 per cent of Canadian voters support Harper’s Conservatives, up by five percentage points since a mid-March Ipsos Reid poll.
This gives the Tories a stunning 18-point lead over their chief rival, the Liberal party, which has fallen by three percentage points and now has the support of 25 per cent of voters.
The NDP, which has slipped by four percentage points, now has the support of 15 per cent of the electorate. National support for the Bloc Quebecois remains unchanged at nine per cent. Similarly, the Green party’s support, at five per cent, has not wavered.
A Vancouver Sun front page story this morning made my coffee taste better. I saw the headline and the sun started shining. I’m not kidding.
Harper’s fortunes soaring in B.C.
Peter O’Neil, Vancouver Sun
Published: Tuesday, May 23, 2006[…] In B.C., the only province where the Tories lost substantial ground in the Jan. 23 election, they are in even better shape, sitting at 48 per cent in the May 16-18 survey for CanWest/Global on voting intentions. That’s up five percentage points from two months ago and well ahead of the party’s 37-per-cent showing in the January election.
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