The results of a CFRA poll indicate that the Liberals should be thinking twice about taking down the government this spring.
There is renewed speculation about a spring federal election. Please rate the performance of the Harper minority government. Excellent 34.4% Very Good 43.6% Adequate 13.7% Very Poor 8.05% Other 5.55% Total Votes: 1801
This may not be a scientific poll as it was conducted online, but when 91.7% of the 1800 or so respondents believe the government is doing Adequate or better and a whopping 78% feel they are doing Very Good or Excellent, then the opposition parties need to pay attention.
If you take out the Other results, the weighted value of the Adequate or better answers go up to 97% and the Very Good or Excellent total is a commanding 82.6%. These are quite dramatic results and make me very proud to be one of those who think the Harper government is doing an Excellent job.
The environment may be a key issue to the press, but to citizens it is not as important as good government, good leadership and an accountable team that will not squander our tax dollars and this poll shows it.
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This is the *farthest* thing from a ‘scientific’ poll. All it really shows is that 8% of the people who visit CFRA.com are actually left-wing sympathizers who enjoy messing up the online polls, and 13.7% may actually be previous CPC supporters who are now upset with CPC performance. It is in no way an accurate cross-section of ANYTHING (other than perhaps CFRA.com visitors, who tend to be CPC supporters), and surely NOT an accurate representation of Ontario, or Canada. By your rationale, I can take the reader comments on the CBC website as an accurate sample of Canadian views.
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The facts are this: the public is not in a mood to run to annother election without good reasonl. The commies desperate for power is not a good enough reason for Canadians to support them.
Back off.
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Not only is it far from scientific it’s stupid.
It’s done by CFRA.
Madely has sat in on CPoC strategy meetings!
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Even if it is correct, it does not mean that people who think the Conservatives did a good job would actually cast a ballot for them.
John M Reynolds
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Even if central Canada doesn’t like Harper’s Albertan politics, they’re just going to have to get used to it. Who else are they going to vote for … Dion!? He doesn’t even speak good English and Layton looks like a dandy.
CFRA is right in Ottawa so it reflected what that city thinks and because it is the capital, it knows about the central government and being central, it knows what the rest of Canada thinks. Canadians like good leadership
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“He doesn’t even speak good English…”
Hi kettle, it’s pot. Oh, by the way, you’re black.
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CFRA is right in Ottawa so it reflected what that city thinks and because it is the capital, it knows about the central government and being central, it knows what the rest of Canada thinks.
CFRA’s slogan used to be “Left on the dial but right on the issues.”
It’s target demo is 40+. It’s not a representation of what the City of Ottawa thinks!
It’s a representation of what the Conservative base in Ottawa thinks.
Just like CBC Ottawa is listened to by mostly centrists and left wing people, CFRA gets the right wing listeners.
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On Canada AM today, Bev Thomson referred to the government as the ‘federal Conservatives’.
Then she went on to chat about the new eco-announcements, which I believe are coming out today, in this manner (I’m paraphrasing, didn’t take notes):
Politicians know the environment is important to voters. They are probably making these announcements in the face of a spring election.
I mean, really. They aren’t even trying to hide their bias anymore.
Funny how much slack they cut the Libranos over the years and how little credit they give to PMSH.
Spring election? Bring it on at your peril.