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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Just reading some of the panic filled comments after the article is good for a laugh.
After nearly a week of what my mind has been a pretty bad campaign by the Conservatives for the polls to shift like this tells me that Dions message isn't resonating at all.
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As many expected it to be the Green Shift is quite complex to explain. With the sound bite world we live in the explanations will never come out the way the liberals want unless they are very lucky. It doesn't help that Dion does have tremendous trouble getting his point across when speaking english for even the simplest concepts. That isn't a shot at Francophones just the truth. It also doesn't help that he seemingly has less personality than Harper and gives an even more boring speech.
From talking to people they feel the Liberal Green Shift can be summed up as:
1) so you want to tax everybody's gas, heat, and electricity which will inevitably cost me more to go to work and the price of everything will go up.
2) Mr. Dion you say it will be revenue neutral that it won't affect my pocketbook because I'll get an income tax break yet you have not cost the program out, the proposal seems to change on a daily basis with things added or removed or tweaked in an attempt to get votes, and if it won't affect my pocketbook how the heck is it going to work to get people to reduce pollution?
It's an uphill battle for the Liberals with the Green Shift. Mike Duffy the other night suggested to a Liberal spokesperson that it might be time to put it on the back burner and look at it if the Liberals form a government. That spokesperson essentially said that is what they will campaign on. I wonder if this latest poll and the lack of traction they have had this first week might cause them to shift gears after all.
IN short people don't understand the Green Shoft. Many of his own candidates don't understand it. And Dion can't seem to explain it.