Federal political polling - started Saturday, March 26, 2011

New Abacus poll:

Con - 36% (-2%)

Lib - 27% (+2%)

NDP -  20% (+2%)

BQ - 9% (-2%)

Grn - 8% (+2%)

http://abacusdata.ca/2011/03/28/2502/

From Abacus:

“Ontario remains an important battleground, and the federalist vote in Quebec is still fragmented.”

In Ontario, the Conservatives and Liberals are statistically tied.  The Conservatives have the support of 39% of decided Ontario voters while the Liberals have 34% of the vote preference.  The NDP trails both with 18%.

Lens Solution wrote:

Unionist, aren't you voting BQ in this election as a protest againt Mulcair's comments about Libby Davies last year?

No - I'm not going to do anything to help the Liberals win. And given the stand of the NDP on Libya, and Israel for that matter (they're still participating in the filthy CPCCA for example) - and Layton's "apology" to the Israeli ambassador for Libby Davies - I've decided that on that front, Mulcair is hard to distinguish from the rest. That's why I said I'll hold my nose. I knew Mulcair was a Zionist in 2007 and 2008. I'm voting "strategically" - again.

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As for Cauchon, as an LGBT person I have some respect for him as the Justice Minister who spoke out in favour of gay marriage, so to me he's better than your average Liberal.  Having him elected wouldn't be the worst thing.  It's the anti-gay ones we most need to keep out.

Cauchon is one of the best of a bad lot. That's why he poses a real challenge here. I just can't do anything that will be interpreted as a reward by that scumbag Ignatieff. I don't pretend to have a consistent perfect approach. I don't like any of these parties. But when the compromises and concessions are all weighed in the balance, I will vote, again, for Mulcair.

Unless he says or does something to piss me off agan... Are you listening, Tom?

ETA: Full disclosure - I contributed money to the Bloc this year, again. My fellow workers/union members know what I'm doing. They tolerate it. Some of them even profess to understand. Not sure I do.

Hope that answers your question, Lens!

@Doug and @Ken Burch:

Thanks for the reply. You know there is this big myth about Truedau. People forget that he killed the Carter Commission, only imposed wage controls, and didn't refrain from attacking unions and groups such as womens groups. He also didn't blink an eye when it came to unnecessarily raising interest rates to fight inflation. We are still paying for that decision; it is a key contributor to the current accumulated deficit we have.

It kills me that people gave him so many passes on fiscal issues. And, last but not least, the War Measures Act. This probably isn't the place to bring this up, but I personally don't think he was justified in doing that. Of course I was 10 at the time, but having the benefit of experience and education, I am absolutely convinced there was no reason for its imposition.

Arthur Cramer, Winnipeg

I know. That is so ironic. I read about his involvement in the Abestos strike. I never understood how he and Mark Lalonde ended up in the Liberal party. I know there is politicial expediency, but frankly, I just don't get it.

Arthur Cramer, Winnipeg

I've heard he thought it would help him in Alberta.  Why he thought ANYTHING would help him in Alberta is a bonafide mystery.   The truly sick part of it is, if he'd called a snap election right after that, Trudeau's government would have been returned with a sharply increased majority and the NDP(the only party in the Commons to oppose the invocation of the WMA) might have lost enough seats to be deprived of official party status.

Ken Burch wrote:

acramer wrote:

Ok, so here is a question that really doesn't fit this thread, but for the sake of asking, could Justing Trudeau become "Pierre Trudeau" No. 2?

I was inclined to dismiss this possibility; am I missing something?

Arthur Cramer, Winnipeg

Justin's ten years too young and he still has hair.

Not to mention he has the IQ of a houseplant (no offence to any houseplants intended).

Unionist wrote:

Lens Solution wrote:

Unionist, aren't you voting BQ in this election as a protest againt Mulcair's comments about Libby Davies last year?

No - I'm not going to do anything to help the Liberals win. And given the stand of the NDP on Libya, and Israel for that matter (they're still participating in the filthy CPCCA for example) - and Layton's "apology" to the Israeli ambassador for Libby Davies - I've decided that on that front, Mulcair is hard to distinguish from the rest. That's why I said I'll hold my nose. I knew Mulcair was a Zionist in 2007 and 2008. I'm voting "strategically" - again.

Quote:

As for Cauchon, as an LGBT person I have some respect for him as the Justice Minister who spoke out in favour of gay marriage, so to me he's better than your average Liberal.  Having him elected wouldn't be the worst thing.  It's the anti-gay ones we most need to keep out.

Cauchon is one of the best of a bad lot. That's why he poses a real challenge here. I just can't do anything that will be interpreted as a reward by that scumbag Ignatieff. I don't pretend to have a consistent perfect approach. I don't like any of these parties. But when the compromises and concessions are all weighed in the balance, I will vote, again, for Mulcair.

Unless he says or does something to piss me off agan... Are you listening, Tom?

ETA: Full disclosure - I contributed money to the Bloc this year, again. My fellow workers/union members know what I'm doing. They tolerate it. Some of them even profess to understand. Not sure I do.

Hope that answers your question, Lens!

Thanks for the information and your answers.

Excuse me Lens but Munclair is our number 2 person basically in our party so I personally I don't know what you are smoking but you in some way suggest unionist vote for the bloc and suggest that the lib would be ok. I guess you are just trying to help the NDP out right?

So let me be blunt, with the libs in single digits in Quebec, Cauchon is going down and that's good. It was arrogant of him to think (and by extension the libs) to think that he could win against a 2x encumbant who is well known and respected. And lead by a leader who in the crop poll think that would make the best prime minister. Furthermore, for a person who seems so gush darn politically naive, which I don't believe for 1 sec, I actually am becoming quite tired of your liberal cheerleading.

Lens Solution wrote:

Unionist wrote:

Wilf Day wrote:

Lens Solution wrote:

Chantal Hebert, John Ivison and others have reported that the NDP and the Bloc both want to defeat Martin Cauchon and Justin Trudeau so that neither one emerges as Liberal leader.  Apparently the BQ is helping the NDP in Outremont, and the NDP is helping the Bloc in Papineau.

Seems to me that Bloc and NDP voters in those ridings would figure this out without any instructions from any hierarchy.

Quite right, Wilf - speaking for yours truly, anyway, who has voted both Bloc (Amir Khadir and later, to my shame and regret, Jacques Léonard) and NDP (Tom Mulcair) - we will do our best to keep Cauchon out. That may be a challenge. But "strategic" voting of this kind is pretty endemic in Québec.

Unionist, aren't you voting BQ in this election as a protest againt Mulcair's comments about Libby Davies last year?

As for Cauchon, as an LGBT person I have some respect for him as the Justice Minister who spoke out in favour of gay marriage, so to me he's better than your average Liberal.  Having him elected wouldn't be the worst thing.  It's the anti-gay ones we most need to keep out.

Our kids live together and play together in their communities, let's have them learn together too!

Continued here.