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Old 12-18-2015, 12:49 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher View Post
People vote according to a bunch of different values. Economic. Social. Regional. A goodly number of NDP supporters are uneducated and socially-conservative union workers. A lot of Conservatives voters are progressive and urbane white-collar workers who just want to keep more of their paycheque. Quebecers tend to be much more communitarian than the rest of Canada when it comes to economics and the role of government, but they're also far more culturally chauvinistic and wary of immigrants and their foreign practices.
The one thing I did find interesting about this poll, based on what you just described, was that Quebecers were generally more opposed to Trump's comments than the rest of Canada.
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