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Originally Posted by Cheese
Trudeaumania Part deux: New poll suggests Trudeau would be PM if he was Liberal leader
According to a new Angus Reid poll released Monday, if Trudeau became the leader of the Liberals he would catapult the party from third place to first place virtually overnight.
A Liberal Party led by Pierre Trudeau's son would become the national frontrunner (40 per cent), with substantial leads over Stephen Harper's Conservatives (30 per cent) and Tom Mulcair's NDP (21 per cent).
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canad...173335433.html
- He's got more charisma than the royal family and Lady Gaga combined. In Ottawa, which is Hollywood for ugly people, that matters. On the election hustings, when measured against Trudeau, Stephen Harper and Thomas Mulcair will look like Angry Old Guys.
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All that's really saying is that the people who responded to the survey really just want Pierre 2.0 and Justin is riding name recognition to success.
If he decides to run for the Liberal leadership, and
if he wins the nomination, you can be sure the Conservative attack machine will go into overdrive highlighting Justin's inexperience and other drawbacks.
It also shows how weak the NDP's support is. I think many voters, especially in Ontario and Atlantic Canada, are sick of Harper's antics and are grudgingly putting their support behind the party with the best chance to defeat the CPC. That's currently the NDP, but things could change quickly depending who the Liberals choose for their leader.
As a self-described "blue liberal", is it really too much to ask for a party that's fiscally responsible but socially progressive? For a variety of reasons, I can't support either the CPC or the NDP, but the Liberals sure have been uninspiring over the last few elections.