Saturday, November 29, 2008

Poll - No coalition!

Somewhat surprisingly, should it come to that, it appears that even here in lib/left Victoria there's little enthusiasm for a Lib/NDP coalition:
See also: Globe poll, NewsTalk650.

And, should it come to that, here are some catchy names for the coalition.
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3 comments:

Reid said...

While many might say the sample of just +300 is nothing to go by, it jives with CTVs poll the other day of over 20,000. http://tinyurl.com/5ukwpn

November 29, 2008 at 5:14:00 PM PST
Alberta Girl said...

Funny that we had 10 polls a day (slight exaggeration, but you get my point) during the recent election; yet I have yet to see a poll on this power play takeover by dumb, dumber and their cohort Frenchie.

I wonder if they are not getting the answers they want.

November 30, 2008 at 6:59:00 AM PST
JR said...

Yeah, these on-line media polls do lack the credibility of the supposedly unbiased ones done by the professional polsters (and as Alberta Girl notes where are they on this crisis?). But in this case there's reasonable consistency (as Reid points out) with other similar polls. Also, in a small town like Victoria 300 responses (I note it's now up to almost 500) to a radio station's on-line poll is a pretty good sample - and it's against the natural local political grain.

So people are clearly seeing through the opposition BS. Even if they had reasonable justification for ousting a six week old 143 seat minority government(and they don't) there's no way that they can form a more credible or stable minority government with a mixed bag of leaderless Libs and NDP with 113 (76+37) seats between them backed up by a bunch of (50) commie separatists.

Though the opposition can't admit it, it's blatantly obvious that the driving motivation for this attempted coup d'etat is the threatened cancellation of taxpayer funded 'entitlements' for political parties - and for the NDP maybe the no-strike provision for gov't unions.

But as far as I know the opposition doesn't really need a good argument to defeat a minority government. They can do it any time they see an opportunity. However, ordinarily, they have to risk going to the polls. I can't see the GG and/or the Supremes allowing this "coalition" of idiots to form a government on such a thin pretext without a new vote . But it's possible and, as Ted says, "downright scary."

And people actually want Proportional Representation! Permanent instability and elections every year or so. Nuts to that!

November 30, 2008 at 12:42:00 PM PST

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