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Monday, 6 December 2010
Surprise! Surprise! Tories pull ahead of policy-less Liberals in latest poll
Posted by 2011 at 18:05So NANOS puts Harper in majority territory:
Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are headed toward a majority government without the help of Quebec, a new national poll suggests.
The Nanos end-of-year survey is significant, revealing an emerging Tory strategy in which the governing party is concentrating on winning groups of riding with focused issues. And it appears to be bearing fruit for the Prime Minister...
“The current configuration of national support for the Conservatives suggests that numerically a Tory majority government can be formed without significant breakthrough in the province of Quebec,” pollster Nik Nanos told The Globe. “In this paradigm, the Conservatives narrowcast messages to clusters of ridings on a diversity of issues such as crime, the long-gun registry and social issues that align with their base and which divide the opposition.”
The Nanos poll has the Tories seven points ahead of their rivals, Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals – 38.1 per cent support nationally compared to 31.2 per cent.
Nanos believes the traction of the Tories is coming from their focused messages to core voters in the suburbs of the big cities.
And we still find the "experts" in the Liberal Party leadership determined not to give voters any meat to chew on until they unveil a platform after Harper has dropped the writ.
This wonderful strategy – we can call it the Postdated Blank Cheque Strategy – asks voters not to be influenced by the daily drip-drip of Tory promises and PR gimmicks but to reserve judgment about choosing a party to vote for until Harper calls an election.
And then voters will be presented with a detailed policy platform and expected to (1) absorb it, (2) differentiate it from the Tory policies, and (3) choose it over the Tory election messages.
And to do this in the space of 6 weeks!
What genius believes that voters will (1) wait for an election to decide between "More of the Tories" and "Liberals without Policies", and (2) then decide to choose the party which did not trust their judgment enough to actually let them know what its policy was until a week and a half or so before the election?
A bit of an insult to voters, this blank cheque policy strategy, aint it?
The Cat thinks so.
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