{"id":2142,"date":"2009-01-19T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2009-01-19T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T01:24:00","slug":"january-poll-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2142","title":{"rendered":"January Poll Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s debatable how much stock we should be placing in the polls until Ignatieff<\/span> gets a chance to fully define himself. So rather than going bonkers over every poll that gets released, I think I’ll just do a once-a-month round-up to get a rough lay of the land.<\/p>\n

So here’s what Canadians have been telling pollsters of late:<\/p>\n

Angus Reid<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>(Jan 14-15, 1000 online)<\/em>
CPC<\/span> 39%
Lib 30%
NDP<\/span> 17%
BQ<\/span> 9%
Green 5%<\/p>\n

Strategic Counsel<\/strong> <\/a>(Jan 12-14, 1000 telephone<\/em>)
CPC<\/span> 36%
Lib 30%
NDP<\/span> 18%
BQ<\/span> 11%
Green 5%<\/p>\n

Ipsos<\/span> Reid<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>(Jan 6-8, 1000 telephone)<\/em>
CPC<\/span> 39%
Lib 28%
NDP<\/span> 15%
BQ<\/span> 8%
Green 9%<\/p>\n

Nanos<\/span> <\/a><\/strong>(Jan 3-7, 1000 telephone)<\/em>
CPC<\/span> 33%
Lib 34%
NDP<\/span> 19%
BQ<\/span> 7%
Green 7%<\/p>\n

MEAN<\/strong>
CPC<\/span> 36.75%
Lib 30.5%
NDP<\/span> 17.25%
BQ<\/span> 8.75%
Green 6.5%<\/p>\n

So, taken as a whole, it appears we’re back to the 6-point holding pattern, which has generally been the norm since 2006. Despite this, there is some good news in Liberal land – Harper’s “coalition bounce” is gone, the Grits are up in Quebec in every one of these polls, and Ignatieff<\/span> is doing better on the “best PM” question than Dion ever did.<\/p>\n

And all of that, is the context you can be sure the parties will be keeping in mind, as they decide how to approach the upcoming budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s debatable how much stock we should be placing in the polls until Ignatieff gets a chance to fully define himself. So rather than going bonkers over every poll that gets released, I think I’ll just do a once-a-month round-up to get a rough lay of the land. So here’s what Canadians have been telling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}