{"id":2611,"date":"2010-04-25T05:04:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T10:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2611"},"modified":"2010-04-25T05:04:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T10:04:49","slug":"canadian-doldrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/04\/25\/canadian-doldrums\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Doldrums"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EKOS Federal Voting Intent Poll-Decided Voters, 22 April 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notes from North of 49\u00baN<\/em><\/p>\n

In the wake of the bizarre Helena Guergis scandal centred around Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and a MP from Ontario who he kicked out of caucus, the Conservatives held their ground and the Liberals lost a few points. Additionally, EKOS reported that this was the 16th. consecutive poll where no party received more than 33%. The direction of the government poll has 46.6% saying the government is going in the wrong direction and 41.4% saying the government is going in the right direction, with 12% saying don’t know\/no response.<\/p>\n

The gap in favour of the Liberals in bellwether Ontario is well within the margin of error with the Conservatives polling at\u00a033.1% \u00a0and the Liberals at 34.6% +\/- 4%.<\/p>\n

Disillusionment anyone?<\/p>\n

One possibly interesting pattern is the stability of support for the minor parties {NDP, Greens, and Bloc} since last October.<\/p>\n

Twitterversion::<\/strong> Post-Guergismania EKOS poll shows Liberals slipping. NDP, Greens, & Bloc with fairly steady %s since Oct’09 #ThickCulture\u00a0@Prof_K<\/a><\/p>\n

Song::<\/strong> Portishead-‘Numb’
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Notes from North of 49\u00baN In the wake of the bizarre Helena Guergis scandal centred around Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and a MP from Ontario who he kicked out of caucus, the Conservatives held their ground and the Liberals lost a few points. Additionally, EKOS reported that this was the 16th. consecutive poll where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4397,1455,4394,4395,4293,1526,4396,1456],"class_list":["post-2611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-numb","tag-canadian-politics","tag-ekos","tag-federal-voting-intent","tag-helena-guergis","tag-notes-from-north-of-49n","tag-portishead","tag-stephen-harper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}