Canadian Federal Election News: Liberals open up lead, Conservatives lag | The Forum Poll

[Fred Sanders]

"TORONTO October 7th, 2015 - In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll™ among 1447 Canadian voters two weeks before the October 19 Federal election, more than one third will vote for the Liberals (35%), while about 3-in-10 will vote Conservative (31%). About one quarter will vote NDP (26%), and few will vote either Green (3%) or Bloc Quebecois (4%). These findings represent an eight point jump for the Liberals since last week (September 29, Liberals - 27%) and a three point drop for the Conservatives (from 34%). The NDP vote may have shrunk slightly (from 28% on September 29)."

Previous Forum Poll had Conservatives up +7 over Liberals.

Read more at: http://poll.forumresearch.com/post/2407/ndp-in-3rd-nationwide-1st-in-quebec/
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[Dawson Leery]

1. NDP voters must be practical.

They need to move over to the Liberals if they want to ensure Harper's unemployment.

It appears they are slowly moving in that direction. They must move their faster.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Too late. Liberals have occupied the leftist ground the leftist NDP inexplicably abandoned.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

6. No thats just media spin,

To quote a poster from the rabble.ca discussion board for a quick summary:

The liberals supported the Harper conservatives on Anti-Terror Bill C-51, Zero tolerance for barbaric cultural act, Bill S-7, CETA, Chinese FIPA, mandatory minimum sentence , corporate giveaways coporate cuts , weaken the Navigable Waters Act and axing vote subsidy . Liberals voted with the conservative 69 times to limits Canadian civil liberties from 2001 to 2015 . Source : International Civil liberties monitoring group . And Justin Trudeau Libs were + are prepared to blindly endorse TPP just like they did with FIPPA 31 year.

Trudeau also "did not vote" , abstained on the Harpers Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act c-24.....Mulcair voted NO On TPP, Justin Trudeau also says Liberals are 'pro-trade,' offers no promises for auto industry

A few more from here:
Conrad Black to Bay Street: Justin can be trusted
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10875358

Are the Liberals really running to the left of the NDP? Oh, please.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10875205

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. Hell no, The NDP's poll numbers will rise

They switched tactics and are coming out guns a-blazing. This aint over by a long shot. The Canadian establishment media just want's voters to think so. Beside Pollsters missed/downplayed the orange crush in Quebec, and Alberta, and also wrongly proclaimed BC's NDP a shoo in. Modern polling is garbage, disseminated by a corporate media, to sway votes, that is all.

Besides the Libs have pulled this card too many times, only to go on a break all of their promises and govern from the right.

[roamer65]

3. The Canadian left needs to do some strategic voting.

If you live in a predominantly Lib riding, vote Lib. If you live in a predominantly NDP riding, vote NDP. If enough do that, you will have given the Libs and NDP enough seats to form a coalition government. Justin Trudeau will understand that is what will need to be done, as his father had to form a coalition with the NDP after the 1972 election.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. Trudeau already long ago ruled out a coalition with the NDP. n/t

[roamer65]

7. Necessity is the mother of invention.

They will make it work.

[Monk06]

8. That's a four point jump for the Liberals in one day since Harper's federal service niqab ban

announcement. No religious head gear or costume in Fed employment and service delivery will lose him the Sikh vote which is huge

[Fred Sanders]

9. It was not a ban, it was mouthing off a proposal as part of the Fear Agenda that is not as popular

in Canada as America, apparently.

The liberals will win it looks like because of misreads by the Left and the Right, and who is there in the Middle to take the prize, as usual when that happens?