Decima Research Poll 19 - 22 May
Note the single poor women staying away from the NDP and siding with the money spending Libs. It is not because of Belinda although the media will portray it that way. Its that to the younger women, the NDP will not get elected and be able to do anything anyway. So, the next best Party for them is the $Liberals$ as they secretively hope for a better life.
And the NDP still do not count since they do not want to impliment what I have written. The Cons could use it IF they are Libertarian, but alas they are not for increasing personal Rights and exposing another Liberal scandal as I have fully outlined in earlier posts.
cheers :) majere
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OTTAWA (CP) - The Conservatives continue to slump in voter support despite daily allegations of Liberal sponsorship misdeeds, a new poll suggests.
The phone survey by Decima Research Inc. puts the Liberals ahead with 36 per cent of decided voters compared to 27 per cent for the Conservatives and 21 per cent for the NDP.
In the crucial battleground of Ontario where one-third of Commons seats are centred, the Liberals lead by 16 percentage points.
The separatist Bloc Quebecois has a hammerlock on Quebec with 53 per cent of support, versus 21 per cent for the Liberals, 12 per cent for the Tories and nine per cent for the NDP.
Prime Minister Paul Martin has promised a federal election call within 30 days of a report by Justice John Gomery on the sponsorship scandal. His conclusions are expected in December but could be delayed.
And the minority Liberals may be brought down sooner if the Conservatives force and win a non-confidence vote.
Decima polled just over 1,000 adults across Canada from May 19 to 22.
Polling began two days after Belinda Stronach's stunning defection to the Liberals from the Conservatives. Losing the urban Ontario social moderate was a major blow to the Tories and leader Stephen Harper.
But the survey suggests voter intentions are anything but stable.
Decima CEO Bruce Anderson calls it a "whipsawing effect."
Almost half of those polled, 48 per cent, said they had changed their mind in recent months about which party to support. One in four said they are struggling to decide and have switched loose allegiances repeatedly.
Of those respondents - most are low-income women aged between 25 and 44 - more than one-third now say they'd support the Liberals, 27 per cent would vote NDP and 24 per cent Tory.
Such volatility is normally reserved for election campaigns, Anderson says.
But many voters have been paying close attention to the Gomery inquiry and the political upheaval on Parliament Hill as parties jockey for power.
The resulting uncertainty helps explain sharp swings from one poll to the next, Anderson says.
"These whipsawed voters are different from traditionally defined undecided voters, who often are those with a fairly passive interest in politics.
"Instead, the whipsawed voters are responding actively to events of the day, most notably the Gomery commission, the debate over election timing and the functioning of the House of Commons."
The good news for Conservatives is those voters may well change their minds again.
The Decima survey is considered accurate within 3.1percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
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