This may be a tad irrelevant now that it looks certain that Harper will call a general election before the by-election date, thus cancelling them out, but the Guelph Greens are crowing about this poll that was taken in the riding showing them to be in 2nd place:
The poll, conducted Sept. 1 and 2 by Oraclepoll Research, shows Green Party support is now almost twice as high as the Conservatives’ and three times the level of the NDP .The standings are: Frank Valeriote, Liberals 38.4%; Mike Nagy Green Party 24.2%; Gloria Kovach, Conservatives 12.6%; Tom King, NDP 8.0%. A further 16.7% of voters are undecided..The Oraclepoll survey was conducted on Sept, 1 and 2 with 300 electors who say they are certain to vote. The polls margin of error is +/-5.7%, 19 times out of 20.
This would be a stunning result if it were accurate. The caveat there is IF it is accurate. The pollster doesn’t exactly have a lot of history of doing a lot of polls. So, as much as I’m tempted to want to believe Ms Kovach of the Cons is floundering at that level of support, I’m going to have to put this one in my “sceptical” drawer.
Another bunch of robo-callers. I wonder if this is the wave of the future?