Santa.. er.. Decima..put some coal in Stevie Harper’s stocking:
A new poll suggests Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have lost their big lead over the Liberals in the wake of recent controversies, plunging six percentage points in popular support in just one week. The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey puts the Tories at 30 per cent support, in a statistical tie with the Liberals who are up four points to 32 per cent. Support for the Tories dropped across all regions and demographic groups.
I’m less inclined to believe Mulroney/Schreiber had anything to do with this plunge. I’m more inclined to believe that a) Canadians did not like Baird and Harper’s stance at the Bali climate change talks, and did not like as a result of that being cast as the obstructer/bad guy of the world, and b) Canadians took a dim view of the Chalk River nuclear nonsense, where Harper was casting blame at everyone but his government for its shutdown.
I reckon it’s cumulative. Canadians are finally seeing what a buncha nincompoops we got at the top. Ambrose, O’Connor, Baird, Lunn, Clement. The talent pool on the Con side of the house ain’t particularly confidence-inspirin’. The level of incompetence is starting to worry Canadians and Chalk River really drove home how incompetent they are and how that incompetence is affecting public health and safety. I think SchreiberBriber had a minor impact. The early stalling by Harper wrt Mulroney did not go unnoticed. I’ve seen some Reformatories almost gleeful at the prospects of purging the CPoC of Red Tories like Mulroney and MacKay. Some of that loss of CPC support was because Red Tories are realizing they have few friends in the CPC.
JB