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remind
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posted 11 October 2008 10:17 AM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Continued from here

Nanos results today are below and you can get regional breakdowns at the link above.

Con 32%
Lib 28%
NDP 22%
Bloc 10%
Green 8%


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What are the undecideds? I have a sneaking suspicion that this one may be decided over the last weekend, much like 2004 and 2006. A lot of families will be sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner and no doubt will be talking about the election, who they're going to vote for, etc.
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Putting the Nanos Ontario numbers into H&K gives this

Libs 56 (+2)
Cons 29 (-11)
NDP 21 (+9)

Despite the Cons have a 35/32 lead over the libs. THis makes me think there is something severely wrong with their model or the Conservative vote in Ontario is very ineffecient

Under their model, NDP pick ups are:

Beaches-East York
Algoma-Manitoulin
Welland
Thunder Bay- Superior North
Thunder Bay - Rainy River
Peterborough !!!!!!!
Oshawa
Nickel Belt
Kenora

(so 7 from the Libs and 2 from the Cons). This means that the model has the Libs picking up 9 net seats from the Cons.


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quote:
Originally posted by ghoris:
What are the undecideds? I have a sneaking suspicion that this one may be decided over the last weekend, much like 2004 and 2006. A lot of families will be sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner and no doubt will be talking about the election, who they're going to vote for, etc.

I was thinking about this too. Also the advance poll numbers are apparently way down from 2006 indicating that people are waiting to vote - so I think Thanksgiving may be a big day (and possibly not a pleasant day for a lot of families)


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If I make some assumptions on vote movement in Ontario and plug it into UBC to get the 35/32/24/8
split. I get seats as follows:

Cons 48
Libs 37
NDP 21

I think that is more realistic than H&K

The NDP seats are the same as in H&K except for Sudbury instead of Peterborugh (which stays with the Cons)


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posted 11 October 2008 10:37 AM      Profile for candle     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
To answer ghoris' question the undecideds in Nanos is 18% (Quebec is 22% though)
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A survey conducted this week for The Globe and Mail and CTV by the Strategic Counsel found that in Northern Ontario

NDP 41%
CPC 27%
Lib 23%
GP 9%

But Carol Hughes, the New Democratic candidate in Algoma, is mounting a strong challenge in this riding, which has been Liberal since it was created in 2004, and which has a history of swinging between the Liberals and the Conservatives in its earlier incarnations.


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Wow - if those numbers are the results on Tuesday, there could be a total Liberal wipeout in Northern Ontario. Where are the Tories competitive other than Parry Sound and Nipissing?
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posted 11 October 2008 11:23 AM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Oops, the poll was already noted here.

[ 11 October 2008: Message edited by: Doug ]


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There is a problem with the H+K seat projector. It only allows you to put in national numbers not provincial numbers, so when you punch in what you think the popular vote split will be in Ontario, it calculates as if those were the numbers across Canada - and that distorts Ontario.
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quote:
Originally posted by Stockholm:
There is a problem with the H+K seat projector. It only allows you to put in national numbers not provincial numbers, so when you punch in what you think the popular vote split will be in Ontario, it calculates as if those were the numbers across Canada - and that distorts Ontario.

Thanks Stockholm, I was wondering what was happening there.


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posted 11 October 2008 11:43 AM      Profile for Northern54     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
"We're still at 22 in today's Nanos ...

Con-33 Lib-27 NDP-22 BQ-10 Grn-8

What does this mean, and why the divergence from Harris-Decima?"

The Harris-Decima poll was taken between October 7-10 while the Nanos poll was taken between October 8-10. As well, the Nanos poll has increased its size the last three nights to 500 from 400 so last night's sample was larger than the sample that was left off and it means that the last night's data had a weighting of approximately 40% of the poll. This means that the more recent night's impact on overall numbers was much greater in the Nanos case. Perhaps, that helps to explain the discrepancy.

Most (perhaps all) of the newspaper polls were taken at earlier dates (though published either today or yesterday). As a result, they are more dated. I think (quite rightly) that part of the reason why the Nanos polls were best in recent elections were because they were the least dated. Change does happen quickly the last couple of days of an election.

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A more plausible explanation is the following:

a. margin of error - no two polls are ever identical and so there may be some difference just as a matter of chance.

b. Nanos does not read the names of the parties at all. Decima prompts them all and i think this may be why the Decima poll seems to always gross inflate the Green Party.

I know it may seem self-serving to say that I have more trust in Nanos than Decima since they happen to have better numbers for the NDP - but when i look at the regional numbers in the Decima poll there are some very bizarre numbers that just don't make any sense.


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quote:
Originally posted by Stockholm:
A more plausible explanation is the following:

a. margin of error - no two polls are ever identical and so there may be some difference just as a matter of chance.

b. Nanos does not read the names of the parties at all. Decima prompts them all and i think this may be why the Decima poll seems to always gross inflate the Green Party.

I know it may seem self-serving to say that I have more trust in Nanos than Decima since they happen to have better numbers for the NDP - but when i look at the regional numbers in the Decima poll there are some very bizarre numbers that just don't make any sense.


I agree that usually the difference in polls can be attributed to "margin of error". In respect to these two pollsters throughout the tracking season, there have been too many times where they differ by enough (outside the margin of error, particularly in respect to Liberal/Green support) that it seems that it might be caused by another factor. I also agree with you in respect to the procedure of "prompting" with party names when asking people how they are going to vote and what impact that would have on results. I will be interested in seeing the actual results and see if the Green Party really does have the support
Harris-Decima has been indicating.

The sample size also has something to do with the differential. Harris samples 300 per night over four nights (at the beginning of a campaign, this seems okay) while Nanos was doing 400 per night (and last night, added on an additional hundred). I was trying to find a site that indicates how the sample is gathered in each case.

If my memory serves me correctly, I read somewhere (I can't find it right now) that one of the two pollsters selects voters at random from each constituency to make sure all areas of a province/territory are included in the sample. There was an argument that this kind of sampling would tend to underestimate the vote of those parties whose vote is concentrated.

[ 11 October 2008: Message edited by: Northern54 ]


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Hey Northern54 - sine we would have no way of knowing from looking at the national polls, can you give us any sense of how the election is looking in the three territories?

I assume the Liberal incumbent in Yukon is pretty safe. Is Dennis Bevington a show-in for Western Arctic and do you hear anything about the race in Nunavut?


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Bevington is not a shoo-in.... The Conservatives have a very well-known Yellowknifer running (Bevington is from Fort Smith) so the Yellowknife vote is splitting. I do not know what is happening in the country but that has been solidly Liberal in the past. The way the NDP win this riding is by taking the lion's share of the votes in Yellowknife. That is not happening this time, but the Liberal vote is also down. If I were a betting man, I'd predict that Bevington was not going to win. On the other hand, I've not given up hope.

I know no more about what is happening in the Yukon than you do as we are separated by the mountains and I've no contacts there. It sounds like Nunavut is not going to be as strongly Liberal as in the past but I have not heard anything that would make me think that the Liberals could lose the riding.


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Its interesting that all three leaders have gone all the way to Nunavut to to campaign. Its a pretty long trek to make unless you think you can win - and with no incumbent I assume all bets are off.

I don't claim to know much about political trends in the NWT - but my impression is that in the past the Liberals would scoop up votes among First Nations (not just in the territories but all across the north of Canada) by saying "we are the government, either you give us 99% of the vote in this community, or else say good bye to any funding from INAC". Now that the Liberals are out of power and are clearly not about to regain power - surely it makes it harder for them to use those old Tammany Hall-style tactics.

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I wonder what kind of prime minister stephane dion would make.

If he lives up to half his rhetoric on the environment, I'll be content.


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The trouble with predicting elections in the North is that people who are involved (other than the candidates themselves) have no good way of knowing what is going on in other communities as distances are so great. In Nunavut, that would be even more difficult than in the Western Arctic.

The Election Prediction Project is saying that the riding is too close to call. The Conservatives have a "star" candidate running there (a former Territorial Minister of Health) and the NDP also has a well known candidate. The Liberal candidate seems impressive on paper but is not as well known as the candidates running for the other two parties.


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Was reading as much as I could find last evening about the Yukon race, and from what I could find it seems Bagnall will take it again. There does not appear to be any political race on there at all.

While in other news apparently the Conservatives are buying their way in NWT, and using our money to do so..

quote:
The federal NDP candidate in the Northwest Territories is crying foul over a government contract that the Conservatives gave to their campaign manager there.

[URL=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nphotos/NDPs-Bevington-questions-govt-contract-for-Torys-campaign-manager-Image/photo/09102008/3/photo/canada-ndp-s-bevington-questions-gov-t-contract -tory-s.html]Yahooooooooooooooooo news[/URL]


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I wonder what kind of prime minister stephane dion would make.
If he lives up to half his rhetoric on the environment, I'll be content.

Yes, but you vote now, find out later.

The odds that the Liberals would deliver even half are ________ ?

Meanwhile you would have given up your share in helping to build an alternative to rotating sellouts.

Bon chance.


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Interesting how when you Google "NDP poll", the only numbers showing up recently under 'news' are the NDP numbers for Harris-Decima showing the NDP at 18%. It seems the news agencies are adverse to reporting that the NDP has been at 22% in both of the latest Nanos polls.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by remind:
While in other news apparently the Conservatives are buying their way in NWT, and using our money to do so..

[URL=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nphotos/NDPs-Bevington-questions-govt-contract-for-Torys-campaign-manager-Image/photo/09102008/3/photo/canada-ndp-s-bevington-questions-gov-t-contract -tory-s.html]Yahooooooooooooooooo news[/URL][/QUOTE

In addition, the Conservative candidate said on television that the contract and the election were unrelated. According to the newstory, there was a 3-day difference between the time of the campaign manager's appointment and the contract ($70,000) being awarded (without any contest).

[ 11 October 2008: Message edited by: Northern54 ]


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Well I guess 70k, is better than the 600k contract they gave their candidate down in the GVA. Though the hyporcrisy truly makes me sick, as the CPC were always yelling about Liberal patronage and giving away Canadian tax payer's money. And yet here they are proving they are 1 in the same.
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quote:
Originally posted by KenS:

Yes, but you vote now, find out later.

The odds that the Liberals would deliver even half are ________ ?

Meanwhile you would have given up your share in helping to build an alternative thttp://www.rabble.ca/o rotating sellouts.

Bon chance.


Canadians as a whole vote now.

I find out later.


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Canada Election Prediction Project now has the NDP at 33 confirmed, with 24 seats still close to call.

New additions:
Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing
London-Fanshawe


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Originally posted by skoblin:
Canada Election Prediction Project now has the NDP at 33 confirmed, with 24 seats still close to call.

New additions:
Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing
London-Fanshawe


Then what seat are they saying the NDP will lose? As we have 30 MPs currently.


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They are listing Vancouver Island North, Surrey North, Hamilton East-Stoney Creek and Parkdale-High Park as TCTC.

Forecast NDP gains are Vancouver Kingsway, Sasakatoon-Rosetown-Biggar, Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, Nickel Belt, Thunder Bay-Rainy River, Thunder Bay-Superior North and St. John's East, leaving a net gain (so far) of three seats.

Other TCTC seats where the NDP is competitive: Esquimalt - Juan de Fuca, Newton-North Delta, Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission, Churchill and South Shore-St. Margaret's.

So, if you go by EPP, if the NDP runs the table it will end up with 42 seats.

There are some seats, though, that they have called for other parties that the NDP could still win (eg Beaches-East York, Sudbury, Edmonton-Strathcona).

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The EPP guy obviously has trouble coming out and saying the Libs won't win Hamilton East-Stoney Creek and Parkdale-High Park...with "star candidates" Larry DiIanni and Gerard Kennedy running and all.

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Interestingly, EPP is more bullish on calling seats for the NDP in northern Ontario than democraticspace. Greg Morrow is only calling Thunder Bay-Superior North as an NDP gain, all of the others (except for incumbents Rota, Angus, Martin and Clement) are TCTC.

On the flip side, he is calling all the Hamilton seats for the NDP and shows Beaches East-York and Parkdale-High Park as the only TCTC seats in Toronto (probably the correct call). Other potential NDP gains still listed as TCTC on democraticspace but not EPP: Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo, Oshawa, Welland, Palliser, Dartmouth-Coal Harbour.


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quote:
Originally posted by Stockholm:

I know it may seem self-serving to say that I have more trust in Nanos than Decima since they happen to have better numbers for the NDP - but when i look at the regional numbers in the Decima poll there are some very bizarre numbers that just don't make any sense.

I totally agree. The track record of Nanos is pretty good. I've just never had a comfort zone with Harris/Decima, Ekos, or ARS baced upon some of their wonky numbers.

Perhaps I would also place Ipsos up there with Nanos despite their Canwest Global links.

Current Nanos numbers do make sense in that the NDP vote appears to be UP in Atlantic Canada, UP in Quebec and UP in Ontario, while flatlined in the West.

That certainly reasonably translates into an increase in NDP support from 18% in 2006 to 22% in 2008.

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quote:
Originally posted by candle:
Peterborough !!!!!!!

While Peterborough's definitely a targetable place of latent NDP support, I'm cautious about extrapolating too directly from 2006. It was a situation where, with the retirement of Liberal Peter Adams (who'd probably have been reelected had he reoffered), the NDP's Linda Slavin wound up looking like the most "qualified" competitor versus Adams' weak successor and the car-salesman weasel running for the Tories. (In the end, as we know, the weasel--Dean Del Mastro--won.)


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quote:
Originally posted by ghoris:
On the flip side, he is calling all the Hamilton seats for the NDP

Well, all except Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale...

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quote:
Originally posted by Lord Palmerston:
The EPP guy obviously has trouble coming out and saying the Libs won't win Hamilton East-Stoney Creek and Parkdale-High Park...with "star candidates" Larry DiIanni and Gerard Kennedy running and all.

[ 11 October 2008: Message edited by: Lord Palmerston ]


You have got to be kidding re: Di ianni as "star" candidate? He got 6 convictions in 2006 in election fraud when mayor and lost in the next municipal election. I have been working in that riding and I can tell you, Di ianni is not going to win.
And Peggy Nash, there was a recent poll which says she is 11% ahead of Kennedy, so it's not going anywhere either.


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quote:
Originally posted by remind:
[QUOTE]

quote riginally posted by skoblin:
Canada Election Prediction Project now has the NDP at 33 confirmed, with 24 seats still close to call.

New additions:
Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing
London-Fanshawe


Then what seat are they saying the NDP will lose? As we have 30 MPs currently.[/QUOTE]

London Fanshawe is a new addition to the EPP predictions but the NDP already holds it.


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quote:
Originally posted by ghoris:
Interestingly, EPP is more bullish on calling seats for the NDP in northern Ontario than democraticspace. Greg Morrow is only calling Thunder Bay-Superior North as an NDP gain, all of the others (except for incumbents Rota, Angus, Martin and Clement) are TCTC.

On the flip side, he is calling all the Hamilton seats for the NDP and shows Beaches East-York and Parkdale-High Park as the only TCTC seats in Toronto (probably the correct call). Other potential NDP gains still listed as TCTC on democraticspace but not EPP: Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo, Oshawa, Welland, Palliser, Dartmouth-Coal Harbour.


The one thing I find curious is that Greg has Essex as a solid Cons win with over 40% for Watson despite reports out of Windsor to the contrary that the anti Conservative voters are gelling behind Taras Natyshak


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quote:
Originally posted by Agent 204:

Well, all except Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale...

And don't forget Niagara West-Glanbrook: technically, that's a "Hamilton seat" in part, too. (Darned mega-amalgamation.)


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New Strategic Counsel:
Con 35%
Lib 28%
NDP 19%
Gre 9%
BQ 9%

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If that is the case the NDP vote is holding and there has been a bit of movement between the Cons and Libs. Good news.
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NANOS ON THE NUMBERS - FURTHER ANALYSIS

This blogger does a pretty good graph of the polling with NANOS, and points out that Greens, NDP and undecided voters are going up, but we are picking up liberal voters. So he suggested that the strategy is attacking Jack, to shake loss those votes.
It might explain the attack ads and out right lies the libs are saying. Of course they isn't anything different. Star has started cons might be in majority (I don't see it, but if you want to create fear and shift voters that works).
Anyway, we are the one with "the best slope."


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Here is a link to a CTV story on the SC poll Bekayne mentions above:


SC Oct 11

Sample size = 1000

ON Lib37/Cons 31/NDP 22/Green 10
PQ BQ 37/COns 25/Lib 23/NDP 11/Green 5
West Cons 46/NDP 21/Libs 20/Green 13


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quote:
Originally posted by candle:
Here is a link to a CTV story on the SC poll Bekayne mentions above:


SC Oct 11

Sample size = 1000

ON Lib37/Cons 31/NDP 22/Green 10
PQ BQ 37/COns 25/Lib 23/NDP 11/Green 5
West Cons 46/NDP 21/Libs 20/Green 13



That's strange. Strategic Counsel released a poll yesterday with the Conservatives 5 points ahead in Ontario. Those Quebec numbers are pretty close to the Leger poll.


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I don't mean to be picky, but SC has NDP support up 2% in the 76% of Canada that is outside Quebec and down 1% in Quebec - yet they have the national NDP number unchanged at 19%. I have to assume that we actually went from 18.51 to 19.49.
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One good thing about the SC poll is that it is causing a big lead story on CTV and in the Globe that any hope for a Tory majority is evaporating.

The best way to keep soft NDP voters from drifting is when there is a consensus that a Tory majority is not likely - but when there is also a sense that the election is not particularly close and that the Liberals have no hope of winning.

Which is more or less the situation we are in right now.


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...and now Leger (remember them?) has just come out with a national poll of 1,500 Canadians:

Cons - 36%
Libs - 27%
NDP - 20%
Gr. - 9%
BQ - 8%

http://legermarketing.com/documents/pol/081011ENG.pdf

I think we are starting to see a bit of a pattern here.


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EKOS published a seat projection on Oct 10, based on their Tues-Thursday polling from this past week. I don't think these numbers have been posted on babble yet, my apologies if this is a duplicate posting:

The EKOS seat projection predicts the following result:

Cons 152
Libs 60
BQ 57
NDP 39

Does anybody think the Libs could go down as low as 60? It seems incredible, but they got 40 seats with 28% of the vote in 1984. I think the BQ number from EKOS is about right, the Cons will be about 5-7 seats lower, and the NDP about 5-7 seats higher. I think the Libs will be closer to 70-75 seats on Oct 14th.


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Does anyone know whether Pat Cordner is a long-shot possibility in Selkirk--Interlake?

VoteForEnvironment says to vote for her. They don't generally endorse no hopers.

She was Executive Vice President of the Manitoba Federation of Labour for 15 years, and President of the Selkirk and District Labour Council for 15 years. Sounds pretty capable.

They also endorse Zeni Maartman in Nanaimo–Alberni.

School Trustee for Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District 68 from 1996 to 1999

Anyone know of any local polls?


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I haven't seen local polls for Nanaimo-Alberni, but it is a rock-solid Tory hold. The demographics are shifting rapidly with a bunch of retirees from Alberta and elsewhere moving in to the riding,and they lean Conservative in their voting patterns. If the NDP win this seat federally, then you know Layton and Olivia will be moving into 24 Sussex the next day - that's the only chance we'd have in Nanaimo-Alberni.
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VoteForEnvironment says to vote for her. They don't generally endorse no hopers.
I think you're giving them too much credit. See May, Elizabeth

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The methodology of each of the pollsters varies slightly - in how they generate their sample, how they weight their demographics from their results, how they frame and ask the questions.

For example, Stockholm has pointed out that Nanos doesn't prompt with the party names - which probably explains why the Greens are lower in Nanos than anywhere else. It might be noted that, between elections, Nanos used to show the NDP lower than other pollsters did as well.

It's worth noting here that the one event which correlates with the sudden rise of the Greens in the polls was when the various polling companies (except Nanos) started including the Greens by name.

It is silly to get hung up on the variances between pollsters.

All the polls show the Liberals have been struggling throughout the campaign, but have stabalized and slightly recovered at the end.

All the polls show the Conservatives were sailing along and then stalled - first in Quebec, then everywhere else.

All the polls show the NDP reaching towards historic highs and well above what we were polling over the summer.


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quote:
Originally posted by West Coast Lefty:
I haven't seen local polls for Nanaimo-Alberni, but it is a rock-solid Tory hold. The demographics are shifting rapidly with a bunch of retirees from Alberta and elsewhere moving in to the riding,and they lean Conservative in their voting patterns. If the NDP win this seat federally, then you know Layton and Olivia will be moving into 24 Sussex the next day - that's the only chance we'd have in Nanaimo-Alberni.

The Conservative is a "last man off the (back) bench" MP. He would be totally beatable with the right candidate. The difference between the strength of the Nanaimo-Cowichan and Nanaimo-Alberni riding associations is jarring and it shows up in the nominations process. The demographics are definitely less friendly than in Nanaimo-Cowichan, but it wouldn't take many votes switching for the NDP to carry the riding.


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Lunney is a no-name Tory incumbent in Nanaimo-Alberni but I stand by my anaylsis of the demographics. If the seat was really that winnable for the NDP, more prominent candidates would have come forward to seek the nomination. The provincial seat for most of this riding is Nanaimo-Parksville, and it is the lone BC Liberal seat on the mid-Island amid all the NDP MLAs.

Both the BC Lib MLA and the Tory MP are weak, but again, I wasn't saying they were that great, I was referring to the riding voting trends and population patterns.


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quote:
Originally posted by West Coast Lefty:
Lunney is a no-name Tory incumbent in Nanaimo-Alberni but I stand by my anaylsis of the demographics. If the seat was really that winnable for the NDP, more prominent candidates would have come forward to seek the nomination. The provincial seat for most of this riding is Nanaimo-Parksville, and it is the lone BC Liberal seat on the mid-Island amid all the NDP MLAs.

Both the BC Lib MLA and the Tory MP are weak, but again, I wasn't saying they were that great, I was referring to the riding voting trends and population patterns.


The NDP could have won it this time with city councillor Dianne Brennan, but she chose to run for mayor of Nanaimo.


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quote:
Originally posted by West Coast Lefty:

Lunney is a no-name Tory incumbent in Nanaimo-Alberni but I stand by my anaylsis of the demographics. If the seat was really that winnable for the NDP, more prominent candidates would have come forward to seek the nomination. The provincial seat for most of this riding is Nanaimo-Parksville, and it is the lone BC Liberal seat on the mid-Island amid all the NDP MLAs.
Both the BC Lib MLA and the Tory MP are weak, but again, I wasn't saying they were that great, I was referring to the riding voting trends and population patterns.


The other 'half' of Nanaimo-Alberni is the provincial seat of Alberni-Qualicum, where the NDP did quite well, so you would think this wasn't a totally lost cause.

However, I tend to agree with you - for whatever reason this area has always had a bit of a Conservative streak federally even though it tended to go NDP provincially. It has voted PC/Reform/Alliance/Conservative since 1984, except for Bob Skelly's one term from 1988-1993. Before 1984, it regularly elected NDP MPs with the exception of 1974 when the Liberals grabbed it for one term.

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Lunney is a no-name Tory incumbent in Nanaimo-Alberni but I stand by my anaylsis of the demographics. If the seat was really that winnable for the NDP, more prominent candidates would have come forward to seek the nomination. The provincial seat for most of this riding is Nanaimo-Parksville, and it is the lone BC Liberal seat on the mid-Island amid all the NDP MLAs.

Actually, there is another provincial Liberal seat on the Island: Comox Valley, though that one is actually part of Vancouver Island North. Trust me, I was living there at the time and it was heartwrenching to see Andrew Black lose there by such a slim margin.


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Nanos Research (today)
Con 32%, down 4%
Lib 28%, down 2%
NDP 22%, up 5%
Bloc 10%, no change
Green 8%

Strategic Council - (today)
cons - 35%, down 1%
Libs - 28%, down 2%
NDP - 19%, up 2%
Bloc - 9%, down 1%
Grn - 9%

EKOS (yesterday)
Cons - 34%, down 2%
Libs - 26%, down 4%
NDP - 19%, up 2%
Grn - 11%
Bloc - 10%, no change

Leger Marketing (today)
Cons - 36%, no change
Libs - 27%, down 3%
NDP - 20%, up 3%
Gr. - 9%
BQ - 8%, down 2%


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NR, you're doing those "up" and "down" calculations from the 2006 vote?
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The greens are at 8-11%, so no.
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quote:
Originally posted by ottawaobserver:
NR, you're doing those "up" and "down" calculations from the 2006 vote?

Yes, he is, and he does not put in whether the GP is up or down. I presume as they never get what they are/were polling at.


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Yes oo, for clarity's sake.

quote:
Originally posted by ottawaobserver:
[QB]NR, you're doing those "up" and "down" calculations from the 2006 vote?[/Q]

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quote:
Originally posted by NorthReport:
Nanos Research (today)
Con 32%, down 4%
Lib 28%, down 2%
NDP 22%, up 5%
Bloc 10%, no change

Really good to see these numbers from Nanos, and one wonders really how much higher the NDP are polling? If the margins of error were fully used, the NDP could be as high as 25%. Which seems plausible considering that 24 or so riding are to close to call.

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quote:
Originally posted by West Coast Lefty:
I haven't seen local polls for Nanaimo-Alberni, but it is a rock-solid Tory hold. The demographics are shifting rapidly with a bunch of retirees from Alberta and elsewhere moving in to the riding,and they lean Conservative in their voting patterns. If the NDP win this seat federally, then you know Layton and Olivia will be moving into 24 Sussex the next day - that's the only chance we'd have in Nanaimo-Alberni.

Demos may be shifting, but that's pushing things--at a less than 10 point gap, this still isn't Kelowna/Okanagan-scale "rock solid". That is, look more into Stornoway Jack than 24 Sussex Jack for the possibilities here...


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quote:
Originally posted by bekayne:
New Strategic Counsel:
Con 35%
Lib 28%
NDP 19%
Gre 9%
BQ 9%

Beware. It's a one day poll. All done on Friday.


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quote:
Originally posted by West Coast Lefty:
EKOS published a seat projection on Oct 10, based on their Tues-Thursday polling from this past week. I don't think these numbers have been posted on babble yet, my apologies if this is a duplicate posting:

The EKOS seat projection predicts the following result:

Cons 152
Libs 60
BQ 57
NDP 39

Does anybody think the Libs could go down as low as 60? It seems incredible, but they got 40 seats with 28% of the vote in 1984. I think the BQ number from EKOS is about right, the Cons will be about 5-7 seats lower, and the NDP about 5-7 seats higher. I think the Libs will be closer to 70-75 seats on Oct 14th.


That's not the question. The question is the extent to which EKOS will have discredited itself after the election is over.


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Demos may be shifting, but that's pushing things--at a less than 10 point gap, this still isn't Kelowna/Okanagan-scale "rock solid". That is, look more into Stornoway Jack than 24 Sussex Jack for the possibilities here...

OK, I stand corrected I don't think it would be the local candidate that would make the difference, though - if Jack was headed for Official Opposition and the Tories were down a lot in BC, this one would be competitive. As we all agree, Lunney is a nonentity so it's not the local names on the ballot that are the decisive factor in Nanaimo-Alberni.


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Originally posted by remind:

Yes, he is, and he does not put in whether the GP is up or down. I presume as they never get what they are/were polling at.


Why does everyone say that on Babble? Look at polling results from 2006, and the Greens weren't the only ones to lose half to one percent on election day. The NDP did too.

Look here!

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This has happened to the NDP in as many elections as I can remember. The Liberals trot out that line every election and there are always a few people who buy into it. NDP supporters have more and more experience with it so I (like to) think that there will be fewer NDP supporters who switch allegiance than Green supporters this election. Given the deal Ms May made with the Liberals before the election, activists in the Green Party are not as familiar with Liberal "dirty tricks" yet.

Another dynamic that is in play this election is that there are certain parts of the country (British Columbia outside of the Lower Mainland, Saskatchewan, Northern Ontario, some parts of Atlantic Canada) where either the Liberals and/or Conservatives are not competitive and the NDP should benefit from some strategic voting.

It is my expectation that it should be almost a "wash" with the NDP losing only slightly more votes in Southern Ontario/Quebec as it gains elsewhere. I expect the Greens to lose more votes as there is nowhere for them to gain votes from the Liberals/NDP/Conservatives as voters seek an alternative to their main competition in specific ridings.


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Everyone says that on Babble, FG, precisely because they've been-there-done-that, and have learned not to count their votes before they're cast.

Some of the Green Party supporters haven't had that experience yet (well, except in Saanich-Gulf Islands which dropped between 2004 and 2006, and Vancouver Island North, ditto, plus Victoria, Newton-North Delta, Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, New Westminster-Coquitlam, Western Arctic, Nanaimo-Cowichan, Parkdale-High Park...).

Everyone here would agree that if the Green Party holds the vote it has achieved in some of its better public domain polls, it will be one of the big stories of the campaign. What will be interesting is to see what that votes comes from, relative to the last election.

I do notice, however, that it's been awhile since I heard any Green Party supporter brag that they were "tied with the NDP in the polls".

[Northern54 was faster to reply than me!]

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The latest Harris-Decima poll shows virtually no change at all - except that the so-called Green Party is predictably declining:

http://www.harrisdecima.com/en/downloads/pdf/news_releases/101208E.pdf


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quote:
Originally posted by ottawaobserver:
Everyone says that on Babble, FG, precisely because they've been-there-done-that, and have learned not to count their votes before they're cast.

Some of the Green Party supporters haven't had that experience yet (well, except in Saanich-Gulf Islands which dropped between 2004 and 2006, and Vancouver Island North, ditto, plus Victoria, Newton-North Delta, Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, New Westminster-Coquitlam, Western Arctic, Nanaimo-Cowichan, Parkdale-High Park...).

Everyone here would agree that if the Green Party holds the vote it has achieved in some of its better public domain polls, it will be one of the big stories of the campaign. What will be interesting is to see what that votes comes from, relative to the last election.

I do notice, however, that it's been awhile since I heard any Green Party supporter brag that they were "tied with the NDP in the polls".

[Northern54 was faster to reply than me!]

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The Greens are no more tied with the NDP than the NDP are with the Libs.
The Greens can be a bit idealistic, and I take issue with the Jim Harris press releases that make a big thing about the Greens being 26% in B.C. or tied with the NDP, so I'm not one to make a big issue of isolated polls.
But since we're on the topic of national polls, I think it is worth considering the results of last time - that the Liberals ended up scoring near the top of their polling range last election, while the NDP and Greens scored closer the bottom. Maybe because of strategic voting. If the pattern repeats itself, we're looking at 18-19% for the NDP, around 8% for the Greens, and near 30% for the Liberals. And the Conservatives may pull out only a little ahead of the Liberals with about 34%.
As for the specific ridings last time, the Green campaign in 2006 was, I think, in disarray financially, and they didn't seem to be targeting any ridings. Don't know why.


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The thing about all these theories about which party does or does not tend to do better than the final polls show - is that every election is different. In the US it was a rule of thumb that the Republicans always did a bit better than what the final polls said - but then in 2000 Gore actually did better than predicted by the final polls.

We know that the Liberals did better predicted in '04 and '06 - but we don't know why that was. Was it because so many people secretely liked Paul Martin? was it because the Liberals were the incumbent party? Who knows...all i know is that every election has its own dynamic.


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Originally posted by ForestGreen:
But since we're on the topic of national polls, I think it is worth considering the results of last time - that the Liberals ended up scoring near the top of their polling range last election, while the NDP and Greens scored closer the bottom. Maybe because of strategic voting. If the pattern repeats itself, we're looking at 18-19% for the NDP, around 8% for the Greens, and near 30% for the Liberals. And the Conservatives may pull out only a little ahead of the Liberals with about 34%.

Yes, but last time the Liberals were the out-going government, so the issue was should they be replaced. This time they're not, and from all appearances they are not in any kind of shape to bid to replace the Conservatives (and if you have ANY remaining doubts about that, please examine Dion's tour schedule ... last night he had a rally in Vaughan, for pete's sake, just so they could pull a crowd together that wasn't an embarrassment).

Also, their "stop Harper" argument is a lot weaker because they didn't vote. And their "you know the NDP, they're fiscally irresponsible ... just look at Bob Rae" argument can't be used in quite that way anymore.

So, expect the opposite to occur ... the Libs will be at the bottom of their range, not the top.

quote:
Originally posted by ForestGreen:
As for the specific ridings last time, the Green campaign in 2006 was, I think, in disarray financially, and they didn't seem to be targeting any ridings. Don't know why.

If you pore over the ridings the Green Party lost votes in last time, it was ridings where the NDP either gained the seat, or came very close to doing so. Not targetting may have been part of it at the party level, I don't know.

But, are you saying they're targetting certain seats this time, apart from Central Nova, Guelph and Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound? It seems like they never target the seats they did well in last time (e.g., Saanich-Gulf Islands in 2006, London North Centre this time).

ETA: Should probably have added Vancouver Centre to the list of likely targets, too, I think.

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quote:
Originally posted by Stockholm:
The thing about all these theories about which party does or does not tend to do better than the final polls show - is that every election is different. In the US it was a rule of thumb that the Republicans always did a bit better than what the final polls said - but then in 2000 Gore actually did better than predicted by the final polls.

We know that the Liberals did better predicted in '04 and '06 - but we don't know why that was. Was it because so many people secretely liked Paul Martin? was it because the Liberals were the incumbent party? Who knows...all i know is that every election has its own dynamic.


I don't know... at this point, all I can say is "we'll see..." Election weariness in starting to kick in, for me anyway... I'm ready for it to be over.


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Originally posted by ottawaobserver:

But, are you saying they're targetting certain seats this time, apart from Central Nova, Guelph and Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound? It seems like they never target the seats they did well in last time (e.g., Saanich-Gulf Islands in 2006, London North Centre this time).

ETA: Should probably have added Vancouver Centre to the list of likely targets, too, I think.

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I don't know. They didn't seem to target any ridings last election. This time probably Guelph (which started in the byelection), Central Nova, and places like Vancouver Centre as well. I hear there are a dozen or so. Saanich is harder because of Briony Penn, the former Green. But I'm not an insider to Green activities, so I don't have much more information than you do. It's mostly what I get off of their site.


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Since the topic has been raised from time to time here are the polls for the last few days before the 2006 election:

Election 2006
January 23, 2006
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30.2 36.3 17.5 10.5 4.5

Strategic Counsel[1]
January 22, 2006
PDF
27 37 19 11 6
SES Research[2]
January 22
PDF
30.1 36.4 17.4 10.6 5.6
Ipsos-Reid
January 22
HTML
27 38 19 12 4
SES Research January 21
PDF
28.1 37.0 17.7 11.3 6.0
Strategic Counsel January 21
PDF
27 37 18 11 6
SES Research January 20
PDF
29.4 36.2 17.3 11.0 6.1
EKOS
January 20
PDF
26.9 37.1 19.5 11.5 4.6
EKOS January 20[3]
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24.4 38.4 19.8 11.9 5.4
Ipsos-Reid
January 19
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26 38 19 11 5
EKOS January 19
PDF
27.0 37.1 19.7 11.2 4.5
Strategic Counsel January 19
PDF
28 38 17 11 7
SES Research January 19
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29.0 35.5 18.8 11.1 5.6
EKOS January 19[3]
PDF
27.3 37.4 20.8 10.1 3.9
Strategic Counsel January 18
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28 37 16 12 7
SES Research January 18
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30.7 37.0 16.6 10.7 4.9
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Nanos Research (Sat)
Con 32%, down 4%
Lib 28%, down 2%
NDP 22%, up 5%
Bloc 10%, no change
Green 8%

Strategic Council - (Sat)
cons - 35%, down 1%
Libs - 28%, down 2%
NDP - 19%, up 2%
Bloc - 9%, down 1%
Grn - 9%

EKOS (Fri)
Cons - 34%, down 2%
Libs - 26%, down 4%
NDP - 19%, up 2%
Grn - 11%
Bloc - 10%, no change

Harris Decima (Sun)
Cons - 35%, down 1%
Libs - 25%, down 5%
NDP - 18%, up 1%
Bloc - 10%, no change
Grn - 9%

Leger Marketing (Sat)
Cons - 36%, no change
Libs - 27%, down 3%
NDP - 20%, up 3%
Gr. - 9%
BQ - 8%, down 2%

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quote:
Originally posted by Stockholm:
The latest Harris-Decima poll shows virtually no change at all - except that the so-called Green Party is predictably declining:

http://www.harrisdecima.com/en/downloads/pdf/news_releases/101208E.pdf


Uh-oh.


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I guess we will never get a decent sample province-wide poll in BC by Mustel or any other BC players.

All we have to go on are these skimpy BC sub-samples in national polls.


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As we approach election day even the Globe and Mail is starting to quote the CPAC Nanos Research polling. It's as if they don't trust their own pollster.

Nanos Research
Cons - 32%
Libs - 28%
NDP - 22%

Decline in support spells minority government for Tories: poll

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081011.welxnpoll1011/BNStory/politics/home


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quote:
Originally posted by Stockholm:
I guess we will never get a decent sample province-wide poll in BC by Mustel or any other BC players.

All we have to go on are these skimpy BC sub-samples in national polls.


Yeah I'm disappointed that Mustel didn't come out with their final BC campaign results as they did in 2004 and 2006.

National pollsters and their regional sub-samples in BC are wonky and they continually have a terrible time with their BC numbers. It's akin to polling Quebec whereby CROP and Leger usually get it right.

That said, and to be objective and analytical, probably the most reliable BC poll that I have seen to date are the numbers released by Ipsos on Friday. The extra large BC sample size was apparently polled by Ipsos BC office (BC's Kyle Braid commented on the numers), which has a good handle of BC polling akin to that of Mustel as witnessed by Ipsos' provincial polls.

In that context, those Ipsos BC numbers released on Friday were:

Sample Size: 452

BC:

Con: 39% (+2% from 2006)
NDP: 25% (-4% from 2006)
Lib: 24% (-4% from 2006)
Grn: 11% (+6% from 2006)

While I would have liked to have seen an 800 sample size, these numbers are not too far off from my "gut" feel that I posted in an earlier thread.


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Except that it makes no sense to me that NDP support in BC would be down at all compared to 2006 when it is up everywhere else and the NDP campaign this time has really touched on all the populist and class-based buttons that tend to be very successful in BC.
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Well let's hope that you're right!
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The last Nanos poll for the West showed 44-24-22-10. I'm sure Nik Nanos will be releasing his regional breakdowns before Tuesday.
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Latest Nanos numbers:

Conservative: 33 (+1)
Liberal: 27 (-1)
NDP: 22 (NC)
Bloc: 10 (NC)
Green: 9 (+1)


Nanos Research

Nik on the Numbers


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That is great - the 22% for the NDP has now held for three straight days and keep in mind that Nanos has boosted his daily number of interviews from 400 to 500 the last two nights - so this is now based on 1,400 instead of the usual 1,200.

I really like what i see at the regional level. It was probably too good to be true for the NDP to be as high as 19% or even 17% in Quebec since that flies in the face of all the Quebec wide polls which have us at 12-13%.

So, I'm very happy to see the NDP now at 26% in Ontario and the 23% in the west is good too since that is actually a bit above the NDP showing in the west in 2006.


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NDP at 26 in Ontario per Nanos

How many seats does this put in play


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And WCG can take heart that the Greens are up one point in every region with Nanos. Even though Decima has them down. At least now the polling companies have come together on the Green support.

The Conservative numbers have bumped up a bit from Atlantic Canada (where they're still in third place), and Western Canada (where, depending on the exact region, it may not make a difference).

And the NDPers here will be pleased to know Nanos has released a poll on outcome preferences that includes a Layton majority/minority as a choice.


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And we can rest assured that Democratic Space will not be doing any revisions of support in the direction of the NDP no matter how well the NDP are doing in the polls. We know Liberal party supporters when we see them.
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quote:
Originally posted by candle:
NDP at 26 in Ontario per Nanos

How many seats does this put in play


According to the UBC Forecaster:

Con 46
Lib 39
NDP 21

The NDP comes within 5% in 4 other ridings


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A very good question.

How about it Greg Morrow?

quote:
Originally posted by candle:
[QB]NDP at 26 in Ontario per Nanos

How many seats does this put in play[/Q]



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quote:
NDP at 26 in Ontario per Nanos

How many seats does this put in play


It remains to be seen if the NDP actually does that well in Ontario - but I will say this - if the Nanos was right and Ontario split its vote C35, L33, NDP26 and G9 - it would be a very similar vote split to what we saw in the 1975 Ontario provincial election when the Ontario popular vote went PC36, L34, NDP 28 - and that produced 51 Tories, 36 Liberals and 38(!!)NDPers.

I think that if this scenario unfolded, it would mean that the NDP would go beyond winning the "low-hanging fruit" from '06 (ie: all those seats in the north, plus Oshawa, B-EY and Welland) and might have some surprise wins in places like Essex, Sarnia, Guelph, Davenport, York-South-West etc...

Anything is possible in that scenario.


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Originally posted by NorthReport:
And we can rest assured that Democratic Space will not be doing any revisions of support in the direction of the NDP no matter how well the NDP are doing in the polls. We know Liberal party supporters when we see them.

Greg Morrow has said that he voted NDP last time. I see no indication that he has ever been a Liberal.


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quote:
Originally posted by Stockholm:
That is great - the 22% for the NDP has now held for three straight days and keep in mind that Nanos has boosted his daily number of interviews from 400 to 500 the last two nights - so this is now based on 1,400 instead of the usual 1,200.

I note Liberal rag Toronto Star has now ignored two Nanos polls showing the NDP at 22% while still shuffling the third Nanos poll showing showing the NDP at 22% further back than it should be. HD polls showing the NDP at 18%, however, are dutifully reported front and center.


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Nanos poll showing government preference by region, party affiliation and gender.

http://www.nanosresearch.com/library/polls/POLNAT-F08-T340E.pdf

Irony of ironies.......Green party supporters' preference

NDP minority - 18%
Conservative minority - 18%
NDP majority - 15%
Conservative majority - 14%
Liberal minority - 13%

and...following in the rear....

Liberal majority - 7%

lol...


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Interesting that greens have virtually the same numbers liking NDP/CON minority/majority governments. In all 4 categories.
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quote:
Originally posted by Stockholm:

It remains to be seen if the NDP actually does that well in Ontario - but I will say this - if the Nanos was right and Ontario split its vote C35, L33, NDP26 and G9 - it would be a very similar vote split to what we saw in the 1975 Ontario provincial election when the Ontario popular vote went PC36, L34, NDP 28 - and that produced 51 Tories, 36 Liberals and 38(!!)NDPers.

I think that if this scenario unfolded, it would mean that the NDP would go beyond winning the "low-hanging fruit" from '06 (ie: all those seats in the north, plus Oshawa, B-EY and Welland) and might have some surprise wins in places like Essex, Sarnia, Guelph, Davenport, York-South-West etc...

Anything is possible in that scenario.


When I ran it through the UBC thing the NDP was within 5% in Davenport, Peterborough, London North Centre & Guelph. Within 10% in Ottawa-Vanier, Scarborough SW, London West, Brant, Kitchener Centre, St. Catherines. Next closest after that in terms of margin were Toronto Centre, Essex, Ancaster-Dundas, Niagra Falls, Kitchener-Waterloo.


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quote:
Originally posted by skoblin:

I note Liberal rag Toronto Star has now ignored two Nanos polls showing the NDP at 22% while still shuffling the third Nanos poll showing showing the NDP at 22% further back than it should be. HD polls showing the NDP at 18%, however, are dutifully reported front and center.


But the Toronto Star always pays more attention to Decima. I don't think it's got anything to do with the NDP numbers.


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quote:
Originally posted by thorin_bane:
Interesting that greens have virtually the same numbers liking NDP/CON minority/majority governments. In all 4 categories.

when you add the preferences together for the Greens, you end up with:

NDP government 33%
Conservative government 32%
Liberal government 20%

I wonder what this means if the Green vote starts bleeding off on election day...........


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quote:
Originally posted by skoblin:
Nanos poll showing government preference by region, party affiliation and gender.

http://www.nanosresearch.com/library/polls/POLNAT-F08-T340E.pdf

Irony of ironies.......Green party supporters' preference

NDP minority - 18%
Conservative minority - 18%
NDP majority - 15%
Conservative majority - 14%
Liberal minority - 13%

and...following in the rear....

Liberal majority - 7%

lol...


I suspect Green Party members will be less and less enthused with Liberals once this election is over. The new most frequent argument for the Liberals is for Green voters to change and vote Liberal. But, the NDP isn't being left out either. Dion is saying that he would be great for Canada's poor so that should please NDP voters enough to change their vote too!


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FG

Why am I beginning to get the impression that you are starting to sound like a Liberal party supporter yourself.

quote:
Originally posted by ForestGreen:
[QB]

Greg Morrow has said that he voted NDP last time. I see no indication that he has ever been a Liberal.[/Q]



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In case anyone's interested, Election Prediction Project has updated again. Current numbers CPC 121-Lib 81-NDP 33-BQ 51-Oth 2 with 21 TCTC.

Quebec calls are complete. Very few changes: projecting the Libs to take Ahuntsic and Papineau from the Bloc, Bloc takes Beauport-Limolou, Louis-Hebert and Jonquiere-Alma from the Tories (that's Harper's PS and a cabinet minister for those keeping score). Net result BQ 51-Lib 14-CPC 8-NDP 1-Oth 1.

PEI's been complete for a while - Liberals take all 4 again.

Newfoundland is complete - Tories lose all three seats - Avalon and St. John's South-Mt. Pearl to the Libs and St. John's East to the NDP.

Saskatchewan calls are now complete - NDP projected to win in Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar, otherwise no change - CPC 12, NDP 1, Lib 1.

All other provinces have some TCTC


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Is EPP saying Edmonton--Strathcona is too close to call? The navigation page for Alberta calls it for the Conservatives, but the riding-specific page has a broken-image call for "f-cptc.gif".
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New thread here
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quote:
Originally posted by Stockholm:

It remains to be seen if the NDP actually does that well in Ontario - but I will say this - if the Nanos was right and Ontario split its vote C35, L33, NDP26 and G9 - it would be a very similar vote split to what we saw in the 1975 Ontario provincial election when the Ontario popular vote went PC36, L34, NDP 28 - and that produced 51 Tories, 36 Liberals and 38(!!)NDPers.


I think that's an excellent comparison. If the NDP poll 26% in Ontario while the Cons and the Libs are near parity in the low to mid 30s, there are going to be results that the Hill & Knowlton predictor is simply not built to handle. We haven't seen a vote break like that in a federal election.


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oops - moved to new thread

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