Source: Nik Nanos
If Canadians are asked to cast a ballot on who they trust with the Jobs/Economy as the most important issue in 2010 another "teaching moment" may be necessary. The last time the Liberals threatened an election the gap went from five points to double digits for one month. Have the Liberals learned their lesson to NOT pre-announce their intentions to seek a mandate?
Source: Blogpost
Source: Blogspot
Source: Angus Poll 12/30/09
Is Michael Ignatieff a liability for the Liberals winning in 2010?
Since returning to Canada a few years ago, Ignatieff has done everything in his power to curry favour with Canadians. He had been lured back to Canada after decades of being away by a cabal of Liberals, who thought that he could be the next Trudeau and give the Liberal Party a much-needed booster shot. -Werner PatelsOn leadership the Liberal leader has been in the job for one year and has now fallen behind Jack Layton recently. Dion did not post leadership scores this low in his tenure at the head of the Liberals. Dion managed to hold the environmental issue and unity. Have voters written off Michael Ignatieff for failing in Trust, Competence and Vision? Do apologists for the Liberal Party believe, a six week campaign will rehabilitate his third place scores?
Fallout continues to spread to overseas for Michael Ignatieff trying to ingite the "hidden agenda" among the Catholics. National Catholic Register
Source: The Anatomy of a Liberal Defeat
Some lessons are worth repeating. Gutter politics by the Liberals will have consequences.
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Remember these words by the on regular basis on television:
"The reason why we had to make serious cuts is because Mulroney left us with a huge debt."
Strange! it was Trudeau who left Mulroney with a huge debt.
Well, don't be surprise that the liberals use those same quotes, come to think of it they started already but not as often-not yet.
The liberals seem to brag about their eight year balance budget. Now, where exactly did they come up with that idea since they were taxes, cutting funding to vital areas: education, health care, transfer of payments to provinces, military infrastructure, even the E.I were taken from canadians to pay down the debt yet the liberals made the canadians repay the E.I funds by raising the premiums.....and so on.Where did the funds(money)go.Nowhere else but into the liberals and as they blamed Mulroney for their problems, the national useless media kept their mouths shut leaving the notion that it was Mulroney's and not the liberals' fault.
Can you imagine what it would have been like, if the liberals had attended to the infrastructure, transfer of payments to provinces, military and so on. we would not have the bulk of these payments to deal with today.
I expect if Canadians of voting age were given a non-partisan open book test, you would find that Canadians have conservative values. I think the reasons the Liberals have a core following is due to ignorance and traditional voting.
Recently I asked a friend of mine why she votes Liberal, her response was Grandfather would role in his grave if I voted Conservative. She then agreed to answer some questions truthfully. The results were that all her values were conservative. I told her voting against her vaules won't help her children, and certainly won't help her Grandfather.
I just can't see how Iggy can boost his leadership numbers, even with the msm running interference for him. Donolo may have a big rolodex of media contacts, but we have a big war chest, that can produce pre-writ ads showcasing Iggy's economic naivite/foolishness.
The challenge is: what anti-Iggy narrative do we finally settle on ? I've gone over many of the scrums that Iggy has held in the last three weeks or so, and there's tons of damning material that we can package, to show Iggy in all his glory.
New Ekos poll, and Graves says:
''...it is now apparent that no political party “can currently produce anything approaching a legitimate mandate to govern the country.”
The only way through this, he says, is for voters to start looking at “options like coalitions if they want to avoid fractious minority rule.”
Dear MR Graves,
PMSH has a legitimate mandate to govern, which he is doing brilliantly.
This is a poll, not election results.
So Graves, ASK the question,
next poll ASK Canadians,
put a LibDipper govt as one of the choices.....
or maybe they have already, and the results were not what they wanted so they keep cultivating the field.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/tories-and-liberals-mired-in-polling-gridlock/article1472431/
Coalition = 616 candidates
Conservative = 308 candidates
Democracy, think not.
CJ
What I find the least desirable 'quality' of Iffy, almost laughable, is how he takes a stand and then reverses his opinion within days.
He has justified the name 'iffy'.
And has done so right from day one.
Iffy's word means nothing,
and not just the usual making of political promises that may be hard to keep.
Then if you factor in the 'coalition of losers' possiblity next election,
Iffy's election platform is a farce,
because EVERYTHING is negotiable with the Dippers.
And Iffy is the WEAKEST LINK in a coalition.
Anon,
A large number of us are movable voters. I never voted for the PC party or Brian Mulroney. I was a Liberal NDP voter. York South Weston Bob Rae/John Nunziata were the "guys" that had our support.
The Liberals got arrogant, broke their promises, lost faith with their core. (Now in cheap seats)
The Liberals are NOT the party of our parents.
Jen I believe Trudeau left with a 9% Deficit to GDP.
The Reform in opposition supported the Liberals in cutting spending giving them a free hand to gut their big ticket items.
I am in favour of a smaller leaner Federal Government but the equalization and transfers should be done with the WEST in mind as they are carrying the burden on a per capita basis.
CJ, Wilson,
Iffy is Paul Martin redux. His "markers" are a joke. His lack political skill and judgement make him a lame duck leader going into the campaign with MP's thinking about saving their own skins.
Take a look at the US and democrats bailing on the OBAMA Hope and Change ticket.
These Conservative Democrats are running to the independent tea party supporters who want smaller lean government.
Wilson
The CBC is trying to pump up the LPC through EKOS polls. Do you remember when the double digit lead lasted for a month the CBC cut back on the polling and changed their questions?
The media will try to project the opposition being competitive but the ballot box will demostrate we vote for our own self interest and don't want more taxes or a bigger government.
It will be very ugly for the opposition. The CPC will get their majority.
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