{"id":2682,"date":"2010-06-18T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2010-06-18T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T12:32:00","slug":"poll-soup-schools-out-for-the-summer-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2682","title":{"rendered":"Poll Soup: School&#8217;s out for the Summer Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/TBohoQSYvFI\/AAAAAAAABrg\/hVSlyPgy3lQ\/s1600\/Vote+Intent+-+june.jpg\"><img style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483732471727570002\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/TBohoQSYvFI\/AAAAAAAABrg\/hVSlyPgy3lQ\/s320\/Vote+Intent+-+june.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>What has been described as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/parliament-stumbling-to-a-close-with-virtually-nothing-accomplished\/article1602511\/\">the least productive session of parliament ever<\/a>&#8221; is stumbling to a close. Looking at what little has been accomplished&#8230;well, maybe they should have just stayed prorogued.<\/p>\n<p>But even if there&#8217;s been little legislative movement in the House, there has been movement in the polls since January. Despite abortion gaffes, a Jaffer side show, and a billion dollar boondogle, the Tories managed to regain much of what they lost from the grassroots fury over the holidays. A 1.7% lead in <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/january-poll-soup.html\">January <\/a>has gradually widened to 6.7%.<\/p>\n<p>And, you know what. That&#8217;s basically the mean Canadian politics has kept regressing to over the last 4 years. Sure, sometimes the Tories inch ahead and we speculate about a majority. Sometimes the Liberals creep up and we start speculating about a Liberal win. But, without fail, two or three months later, we get back to the 6 or 7 point lead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/story\/2010\/06\/16\/ekos-poll.html\"><strong>Ekos<\/strong> <\/a>(June 9 &#8211; 15, n = 2,013 robo called)<br \/>CPC 30.5%<br \/>Lib 26.3%<br \/>NDP 17.4%<br \/>BQ 10.5%<br \/>Green 12.3%<br \/>Other 3.0%<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanosresearch.com\/library\/polls\/POLNAT-W10-T424E.pdf\">Nanos <\/a><\/strong>(May 29 &#8211; June 3, n = 1,008 phone)<br \/>CPC 35.6%<br \/>Lib 29.2%<br \/>NDP 20.7%<br \/>BQ 9.4%<br \/>Green 5.1%<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/research-environics-net.sitepreview.ca\/media_room\/pdf\/ENPPRMay28-2010.pdf\">Environics <\/a><\/strong>(May 18 &#8211; 26, n = 2,064 phone)<br \/>CPC 36%<br \/>Lib 30%<br \/>NDP 15%<br \/>BQ 10%<br \/>Green 7%<br \/>Other 2%<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visioncritical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2010.05.31_Politics_CAN.pdf\">Angus Reid <\/a><\/strong>(May 25 &#8211; 27, n = 2,022 online)<br \/>CPC 35%<br \/>Lib 27%<br \/>NDP 19%<br \/>BQ 9%<br \/>Green 8%<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decima.com\/news\/releases\/201005\/760-conservative-lead-grows\">Decima <\/a><\/strong>(May 13 &#8211; 23, n = 2,010 phone)<br \/>CPC 36%<br \/>Lib 27%<br \/>NDP 16%<br \/>BQ 8%<br \/>Green 11%<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>AVERAGE<\/u><\/strong> (<em>change since <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/april-poll-soup-guergis-fallout.html\">April <\/a>in brackets<\/em>)<br \/><strong>CPC: 34.6%<\/strong> <em><span style=\"color:#006600;\">(+1.3%)<br \/><\/span><\/em><strong>Lib: 27.9%<\/strong> <em><span style=\"color:#006600;\">(+0.8%)<\/span><br \/><\/em><strong>NDP: 17.6%<\/strong> <span style=\"color:#cc0000;\"><em>(-0.9%)<\/em><br \/><\/span><strong>BQ: 9.4%<\/strong> <em><span style=\"color:#cc0000;\">(-0.5%)<br \/><\/span><\/em><strong>Green: 8.7%<\/strong><em><span style=\"color:#cc0000;\"> (-0.9%)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What has been described as &#8220;the least productive session of parliament ever&#8221; is stumbling to a close. Looking at what little has been accomplished&#8230;well, maybe they should have just stayed prorogued. But even if there&#8217;s been little legislative movement in the House, there has been movement in the polls since January. Despite abortion gaffes, a [&hellip;]<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682"}],"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=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}