I don’t follow you here, Scott.  The definition of "parked votes" is essentially people’s opinion about how they’d vote when they aren’t ’seriously considering’ their options.  That’s why they’re parked votes.

Don’t get me wrong, I do feel for those who felt squeezed out but I’m pragmatic enough to realize it will take more than  the participation of dreamers and idealists to make progress.  I’m  more than willing to spend time chating with these people about ideals and the perfect solution but when it comes to election time we have to ween the electorate off corporate teat of over consumption slowly or they will balk.  The Deep Greens are great examples but often would not make any compromise to become main stream,  would not choose whether socialism or the environment was more important.  To most of us the second is the only choice, you can’t build utiopia on dead planet.

C’mon, Stuart Parker is cool.  A bit of a maverick, but, he captured what the Greens should be for some. 

Thanks for highlighting this. Just a quick note to point out that the Green Party has reached a tipping point where we do hold on to our polled levels of support on election day. Witness the last Ontario provincial election.

Blogging a dead horse: you know darn well that both Elizabeth May and the Green Party of Canada support a woman’s right to chose. If you can only criticize us by twisting the truth (my generous phrase for what you’re doing), then it suggests you can’t come up with any real disagreements with the Green plan. I’m sure that’s not your intension.

Chris Tindal
Candidate, Green Party of Canada
Toronto Centre By-Election

Now the NDP does have the advantage in centralized organization, infrastucture, and money raising yet in recent years they can no longer expect union support, nor the "anti establishment" vote.  Despite these advantages they are losing ground and moving to 4th in more areas, Once the GREENS get the knack of turning sentiment into donations, many NDP will get bulldozed in those areas where they do not historically take seats.

Are Greens going to take seats with 40%? probably no, will they find  ridings where a tight 4 way races will allow 25.1+% - 27% to win? soon, very soon.

So I definately see this poll as good trending, that represents what I see on the street! 
for the whole left/center/right arguement, since when does the health of people or the planet belong exclusively to any one part of the spectrum?   The NDP have claimed they were the ecological party but the environment is not a a topic of ideology rather rationality and despite their barbs about being Greens being a Rightist party, So %$#&& What?  Right or Left is irrelevant, having a plan that does not compromise in order to coddle labour unions and car compaines is.  The environment is not a socialist issue.  Yes, some few ultra left Greens have left the party, some believed that sitting in coffee houses and acting superior was more important than being noticed and making a difference, each one of them is replaced by 10, 50,100 people who believe progress is the goal, not moral superiority.

Some of those 10, 50, 100 people are coming from the NDP so don’t get so high and mighty about people leaving our party.

I would counter your statement of the NDP attacking the Green’s and suggest that the NDP is actually ignoring the Green Party completely, at least nationally (i can’t speak for the 905 belt response, because I don’t live there).

Now we could get into an arguement on whether such numbers would hold up once an election occurred (much like high NDP numbers between elections), I would suggest no, especially if it is a polarizing election…but take it with a grain of salt.

Now if you wanted to argue about the tact of the NDP in not acknowledging the Green’s and allowing them to coast on the publics perceived notion of what they actually stand for, well I could talk about that for hours.

This is a continuation of Lizzie May following Jim Harris’ tack to the right for the Green Party, to the detest of far-left Greens like Stuart Parker.

You should be happy with May’s move towards the centre as it left the NDP monopoly of the left.   However, Layton seems to run a urban-first policy to the detriment of gaining further support in rural  and suburban areas.

Everything changes in a campaign.  A good guess is that unlike the "Liberal spokesperson who runs the Green party", most suburban voters support renewable wind power and a woman’s right to choose.