This is no time to force an election, if Ignatieff wants to win. The best case scenario would be another minority government, but Canadians are tired of minorities. So tired in fact that they might just vote for the Tories to stop the seemingly endless cycle of trips to the polls.
Yet despite their failure to get a positive message across during the summer and despite the dismal string of polls giving the Conservatives substantial leads, the Liberals are gearing up for a federal election. This demonstrates just how far off base their strategists are, and how bankrupt their leadership currently is. While I hate to say it, far better for the Bloc and the NDP to vote with the government this fall to save us from an election and the Liberals from themselves.
I want a change of government, I want to take this country back, as Jack Layton said so eloquently at the NDP convention in Halifax. But I definitely do not want to fight an election over a trumped up issue so that Iggy can save face now that’s he’s shot off his mouth so much.
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Again, the NDP supporters like yourself are going concern-trolling over ONE poll that shows a Liberal drop based mainly on the fact that the BQ has somehow gotten to 49% in Quebec (and in case you didn't notice, the NDP's numbers in Quebec are at 6% in their poll - 8-10% lower then in every other recent poll). This comes from the polling firm that had the Greens in the lead in Quebec with 26% a few polls ago, and then dropped them back to 5% a couple of polls later.
In otherwards, their Quebec results are highly questionable, and if their Quebec results were like ever other pollsters.. the Libs and Cons would be in a dead heat. So as a Liberal supporter, a poll like this hardly bothers me, as I consider it to be an outlier.. or at least the Quebec version of the #'s.
The Liberals have made their choice finally to oppose. NDP bloggers and supporters should worry about what their own party is doing, and see if all this bravado about being the "real opposition" against the Cons was all a sham, now that their non-confidence vote actually is relevant.
Iggy has called Jack! and Gilles bluff. The only reason they have knee-jerk opposed the Tories (i.e. opposed the Tories before seeing what they had to propose) is because they guessed (and guessed right, until now) that the Liberals would cave and vote for the government.
Is this a better time to try to force an election than last January when the NDP and Bloc tried to force an election? or last May when the NDP and Bloc again tried to force an election?
Does consistently polling under 18% and in fact dropping from 18% to 14% instead of increasing show Jack!'s complete incompetence? Does it demonstrate "just how far off base their strategists are, and how bankrupt their leadership currently is"?
Their security blanket has been taken away and they are now suddenly scared.
Would you rather have the Liberals vote WITH the Harper government? No matter what the Liberals do, they can't please the NDP. What a surprise. ;-)
If you look at history, the previous 4 governments that were defeated in elections were all leading in the polls, often by a much wider margin than 5 percent, prior to the election campaign. Michael Ignatieff certainly has a decent shot at replacing Harper.
My goodness, from the virulence of these comments I think I must have touched a sore point chez les Libéraux!
All that stuff above is puzzling, but to be expected, I guess. I'm no fan of Harper, but don't think this is the time for an election.
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