Here, on how the Saskatchewan Party’s climate obstruction is entirely out of touch with the province’s citizens. For further reading…– Abacus Data’s national poll of attitudes toward climate change policy is here, with the separate chart pointing out the views of Saskatchewan and Alberta respondents looking to be particularly significant.–
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Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Abacus Data has polled the Canadian public on climate change, and found far more appetite for meaningful action than we generally hear from the political class (and particularly right-wing parties): Twenty years ago, when the world’s leaders were debating the Kyoto Accord,
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Naomi Klein examines how climate change has contributed to a summer of extreme weather disasters, while David Suzuki highlights how we can work with nature to respond to increased flooding. And Emily Atkin discusses the outsized damage 90 corporate behemoths have done to
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The polls remain discouraging for Liberals #nlpoli
Heading into their convention this weekend, the provincial Liberals have another poll that confirms what all the other polls have said for the past six months or so. For those misled by reports about the MQO poll like CBC’s initial one, see the bit down below. Here’s what you get
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Here (via PressReader), on how the North Saskatchewan River oil spill may not lead directly to a needed reevaluation of the risks of pipelines – but a public expectation that we’ll shift away from dirty energy may be more significant in the long run.Fo…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Liberals have the progressive base on their side – can they keep it?
Liberals are often accused of running (a campaign) on the left and governing right(wing). but recent polling shows that so far, the voters on the progressive left have been rather happy with the Justin Trudeau Government. This article here by Eric Gren…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Abacus – First poll 2015 #nlpoli
No surprise that the Liberals are way ahead in the latest Abacus horse race poll. No surprise the NDP have fallen and the Tories have held steady. What you need to look at to understand what this means are the results for three Abacus questions. (Read more…)
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Abacus Oct 7: Liberal Surge in Ontario strengthening
Latest Abacus poll confirms surge of the Liberal Party continues in Battleground Ontario:Ontarians want a new government, that will handle the economy well, develop infrastructure, provide good governance, and act with decency.We will all get that kind…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Abacus Oct 7: Liberal Surge in Ontario strengthening
Latest Abacus poll confirms surge of the Liberal Party continues in Battleground Ontario: Ontarians want a new government, that will handle the economy well, develop infrastructure, provide good governance, and act with decency. We will all get that kind of government on October 19. Vote in the advance polls (to
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Is an anti-Orange Wave rising in Quebec?
As the 1980s gave way to the 1990s and the defeats kept coming, I became ever more convinced that there were crucial bits of a governing coalition missing for Labour. Where was our business support? Where were our links into the self-employed? Above all, where were the aspirant people, the ones doing well but who wanted to do better; the ones at the bottom who had dreams of the top? … Where were those people in our ranks? Nowhere, I concluded…But it seemed that the party and the voters were in two different places, and so the party had to shift against its will. My own feeling, however, was: the voters are right and we should change not because we have to, but because we want to. It may sound a subtle difference, but it is fundamental.
Clause IV was hallowed text repeated on every occasion by those on the left who wanted no truck with compromise or the fact that modern thinking had left its words intellectually redundant and politically calamitous. Among other things, it called for “the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange.” … At a certain level, it meant a lot and the meaning was bad. Changing it was not a superficial thing; it implied a significant, deep and lasting change in the way the party thought, worked and would govern.
I always remember him saying, “Don’t forget: communication is fifty per cent of the battle in the information age. Say it once, say it twice and keep on saying it, and when you’ve finished, you’ll know you’ve still not said it enough.”
The pathfinder was already switched on: growth was the key; investment, not tax cuts; redistribute, but carefully and not touching income tax; keep the middle class onside, but where growth and redistribution allowed, focus on the poorest; then, in time, you could balance tax cuts and spending.
CuriosityCat: Is an anti-Orange Wave rising in Quebec?
Abacus has a poll out on September 27 that has very bad news for Mulcair’s NDP. The NDP support in Quebec, its heartland, has plunged over the past week, dropping like a stone, while the other parties are ticking upwards: And this anti-Orange Wave has dragged the NDP down nationally
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Mulcair & Trudeau both fishing for votes in the same size pools
But Harper is fishing in a far smaller pool, according to Abacusdata: The whole Abacusdata poll is fascinating and worth studying, and, of course, sharing with friends, colleagues and Tories. This election is one for the record books! Roll on October 19; with some 76% of Canadians wanting a change
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Forget that Orange Wave Thing #nlpoli
Two-thirds of respondents to the most recent Abacus-VOCM News poll said they believed the Liberal Party will win the next provincial general election. That’s an important question because recent American research suggests it is a good indication of the actual vote result than the traditional “which party will you vote
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The not-so-rare leap: @abacusdata June 2015 #nlpoli
Two different polls from two different pollsters using two different polling methods have shown basically the same thing: the New Democrats and Conservatives are duking it out for second place, both of whom remain well behind the Liberals who hold a massive lead in provincial politics. Corporate Research Associates (May)
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Pundits selectively cherry-picking polls to dump on Federal Liberals.
Last week, not too long after the budget release, an Abacus poll was released showing the Conservatives jumping to an 8 point lead over the Liberals. The immediate analysis of that pollster of their results, and from pundits and partisans (even some from our own side) on social media immediately
Continue readingCuriosityCat: 2015 Election: Quebec holds, Ontario rises for Liberals says Abacus poll
On guard Hat tip to BigCityLibfor pointing the way to the latest Abacus poll. The devil is in the regional breakdown, because national poll numbers are relatively useless in Canada. There are 4 big battlegrounds, with only 3 really in contention: the prairies are Tory blue; BC is a nightmare
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Abacus Insight #nlpoli
By lunch time today, you’ll have Corporate Research Associate’s latest quarterly omnibus poll. Odds are the overall numbers on party choice for provincial politics will be in line with all the other polls we’ve seen over the last while. What sets Abacus Data’s poll released on Tuesday is that Abacus
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The NDP’s 7% problem
The NDP’s biggest problem electorally isn’t a question of policy or values or leadership or connecting with voters or just about anything else perennially brought up to explain their difficulties in the polls both federally and provincially across Cana…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The NDP’s 7% problem
The NDP’s biggest problem electorally isn’t a question of policy or values or leadership or connecting with voters or just about anything else perennially brought up to explain their difficulties in the polls both federally and provincially across Canada. Their big problem comes down to one stat: only 7% of
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The NDP’s 7% problem
The NDP’s biggest problem electorally isn’t a question of policy or values or leadership or connecting with voters or just about anything else perennially brought up to explain their difficulties in the polls both federally and provincially across Canada. Their big problem comes down to one stat: only 7% of
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