In light of today’s story about Canadians suspending assistance to Hamas, this new poll just released shows that Canadians have given Stephen Harper and the Conservatives a definite “thumbs up!” All this before Parliament has resumed.
…The survey by Decima Research put support for Stephen Harper’s Conservatives at 39 per cent nationally, up almost three points from their percentage of the popular vote in the Jan. 23 election.
…Although the Conservative rise remains within the poll’s margin of error, the overall results indicate a widening gap with the second-place Liberals.
…Grit support was at 28 per cent in the survey, down two percentage points from election day.
…The NDP was at 19 per cent and the Bloc Quebecois at 11 per cent.
…The poll of 1,012 respondents was conducted over four days, through Sunday, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 per cent, 19 times out of 20.
…“As the new government prepares to meet Parliament (on Monday), the results we have been seeing in the last few weeks reinforce that the Harper Conservatives have a mandate from Canadians,” said Bruce Anderson, Decima’s CEO.
…In spite of the fact that Conservative support has been rising for weeks,, the liberal MSM has to get that one shot in, saying that these results could be interpreted in several ways and considering that the Liberals are “leaderless,”, the Conservatives should have a bigger lead in the polls. They have never enjoyed a lead bigger than 35% since the days of the Reform Party. And of course, the Conservatives and Liberals are in an almost dead heat in Liberal Ontario where the Conservatives polled 39 per cent to the Liberals’ 38, with New Democrats trailing at 20 per cent.
One interesting little difference I noticed: in the Toronto Star’s posting, the first paragraph reads like this:
OTTAWA — A fresh poll shows Conservative support edging upward as Parliament prepares to resume under a new Tory government.
…while the same article posted on CANOE reads like this:
OTTAWA (CP) – A fresh poll suggests Conservative support may be edging upward as Parliament prepares to resume under a new Tory government.
Other than that one word difference, both articles are identical.
And as a footnote, the MSM better get used to the “New Normal” in the Press Gallery.
Read this STORY.
Words (by the Media Union) like “undemocratic” and “frightening” in describing the so-called attempts to limit press access to the Conservative government fall on deaf ears now.
Would they like a little more “whine” with their cheese?
