An internal NDP straw poll on the London-North-Centre byelection apparently shows the Liberal Party in a narrow lead, with Green Party leader Elizabeth May closely trailing in second place. The Conservatives polled in third, and the NDP a distant fourth.
If this is indeed true, Canada may be awarded with an historical result at the London ballot boxes tomorrow evening.
Just how many NDPers, in light of the leaked poll, would consider voting Green, so as to prevent a Liberal candidate from winning? Or even more interesting, with the Conservatives seemingly out of the picture, how many "green Grits" would consider tipping the scales over towards Green Party leader Elizabeth May, and voting with their conscience? Knowing that Canada's greenhouse gas emissions rose by 44% during the 13+ years of Liberal government after Canada became a signatory of the Kyoto Protocol, surely any potential future Liberal government would be best held to its promises if accompanied in the House by Green opposition colleagues.
Historically speaking, Greens have not been big fans of strategic voting, for obvious reasons related to the first-past-the-post electoral system. But this precedent may be ironically reversed tomorrow evening, to fantastic effect.
Vote with your hearts, Londoners. Make Canadian political history tomorrow.
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Leaked poll: Liberals and Greens neck-and-neck in London
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I hope she pulls it off. I think it would be interesting, and would bring some colourful discussion in the house of commons. I am beginning to feel that most of the other parties have let us down in this file. If she can draw attention to it, good for her.
Shawn
The link to EM doesn't work - either EM has taken down the poll or the link goes nowhere.
Where is this poll? Who did the work? What was the polling sample? What was the question?
Come on, talk about a rinky-dink operation. Show me the numbers and I'll be more interested.
As stated in the blog entry, it was an informal and internal NDP straw poll, the results of which were passed on to the Greens. Did you expect to see Allen Gregg's face on some letterhead?
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