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ciroccojTories 10 points ahead of Liberals: poll
Wed Jan 11, 7:43 AM ET
TORONTO (Reuters) - The Conservatives have a 10-point lead over the ruling Liberal Party -- their widest so far in the campaign -- putting the party on track for a majority government, a new poll showed on Wednesday.
The Strategic Counsel poll for The Globe and Mail and CTV News shows that the Conservatives have the support of 38 percent of adult Canadians, and the Liberals have 28 percent.
The New Democratic Party (NDP) have 16 percent support and the Bloc Quebecois, which campaigns only in the French-speaking province of Quebec, have 12 percent.
The poll of 1,500 Canadians, conducted between January 7 and January 9, has a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points.
The Conservatives have made big inroads in the key province of Quebec, where they have 22 percent support, and the Liberals 19 percent. This is the first time in the campaign that the Conservatives have surpassed the Liberals in Quebec. The Bloc has 48 percent.
"I really do believe the Conservatives are on the precipice of a breakthrough here," said Allan Gregg, chairman at Strategic Counsel. "Now the Conservatives are gaining at the expense of the Bloc Quebecois."
Link to the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060111/wl_canada_nm/canada_politics_poll_col
God, please don't let us be stupid enough to vote in a Conservative majority. I'll survive it, with a large bottle of Maalox nearby, if they get in as a minority. But a majority? Just kill me now.
Bad things have happened with our home schooling child-minding arrangement. More later. Basically right now I'm kinda screwed.
Still no privacy.
Have been warned that I'm going to be getting a call tonight from one of the people with the most power in the world to totally bum me out just by saying my name. No, it's nothing dramatic or exciting. Just somebody I never, ever want to talk to, for no good reason other than they bore me beyond belief.
Have fallen behind in e-correspondence; I owe about twelve people mail.
So here's some recs to take my mind off all the above.
- The Lighting-Struck Tower and the White Tomb. Basically, a video of two chapters of the Half-Blood Prince, using footage from the first four movies. No idea what the music is - it's not pop stuff, that much I know. Good, in a creepy way. Needless to say, major spoilers for the book.
- Numb. Really good, in a really creepy way. Draco Malfoy's feelings towards his father, set to "Numb" by Linkin Park. Near the end especially there's some morphing stuff that's just, um, gah.
- Tribute to the Fallen. Self-explanatory. ::shrug:: Nice enough, but not inspired or anything. Just clips of some of the characters who've died.
And now back to our regularly scheduled program, plus freezing rain.
