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Updated Seat Projections
Despite some mid-week adventures by Nanos, the poll numbers stayed relatively flat in Week 1 of the campaign. In effect, outside of our daily dose of Nik, there wasn’t a lot to report on until Ekos and Leger rolled in over the weekend. (We also got new numbers from Decima today, but only after I […]
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The biggest threat to our fragile economy recovery: 19 year old girls
To summarize: The Harper Conservatives ran oppo research on a 19 year old girl, and used it to boot her from a rally. Meanwhile, Harper claims he was blissfully unaware that a senior aide of his had been previously convicted of fraud.
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Week 1 in Review
Poll Soup: I’ll post updated projections soon, but Nanos has the Tories up 41% to 29% and Ekos has it 37% to 26%. Election Prediction Project: CPC 113, Lib 63, NDP 22, Bloc 35, Too close 77 Gaffe Pool: A surprisingly gaffe free week – Harper 3, Ignatieff 0, Layton 0, Duceppe 0. Ad watch: […]
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Call the Gym
And see if you can buy a 2015 membership. Because that’s when Stephen Harper is promising you a tax credit for it. Until then, grab another beer.
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Wisdom of the Crowds: Races to Watch
At the call of the election, I asked Calgary Grit readers to answer 20 questions about the campaign. Here’s what those who entered had to say: Will Elizabeth May win here seat? One-in-five (21%) say she will. For what it’s worth, I think national Green support will drop this campaign, but I do think May […]
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The Liberal Platform…
…will be launched online Sunday morning: Tune in on Sunday, April 3, at 11:00am EDT, to a special live town hall that will be streamed online at Liberal.ca. During the event, Michael Ignatieff will unveil the Liberal Platform and answer questions from Canadians. It’s a neat way to launch it, but the how doesn’t really […]
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Meet A Calgary Grit: Stephen Randall
When Stephen Randall was nominated as the Liberal candidate in Calgary Centre-North in January, the assumption was he’d be fighting a by election this spring. Now, he’s going head to head with Tory Michelle Rempel, the NDP’s Paul Vargis, and the Green Party’s Heather MacIntosh. I had a chance to interview Randall a few weeks […]
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Ad Watch: Ignatieff Gets Personal
A series of new Liberal ads have hit the airwaves. In the first, Ignatieff talks a bit about his past, and ties it in to the Liberals’ just launched pension policy: Then, Ignatieff responds to the Tory attack ads…just 2 short years after they first aired: Finally, my favourite of the three, and the one […]
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Mano-A-Mano
“We should have a great debate, Rob. We owe it to everyone.” -President Bartlet Whether or not we get a Harper-Ignatieff debate remains to be seen, but we got to see the trailer for it over Twitter today. It all started this morning when, out of the blue, Harper issued a challenge: “We’re open to […]
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Wisdom of the Crowds
Sadly, the UBC Election Stock market won’t be running this election (though, given the amount of money I lost on it last time, I guess that’s actually a good thing). If you’ll recall, you could buy Liberal popular vote shares if you thought they were due for a bounce in the polls. Or you could […]