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Originally Posted by octothorp
New Ekos poll today has very good news for Conservatives, showing them leading in Ontario beyond the margin of error. Also shows the NDP holding steady. Definitely the worst poll in months from the Liberal perspective.
The only good news for the Liberals is looking at those soft support numbers; there's a question here about what respondents would like to see in an outcome, and some form of liberal government (either minority or majority) outperforms some form of conservative government in every province except alberta, sask and manitoba.
From a conservative perspective, maybe you want to play hardball and see if you can get the NDP and Bloc to force an election, though it's still questionable whether you can improve on last election's results.
http://www.ekospolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/0779-full-report-_september-17_1.pdf |
The big reason why the Liberals are getting punished is because generally Canadians don't want an election. Playing hardball can be interpreted as implicitly forcing an election, and hence all that support goes away.