Ipsos - Reid 14 - 16 June 05
National
Lib - 34
Con - 29
NDP - 16
Green - 6
Ontario
Lib - 44
Con - 31
NDP - 16
So far looking at a strong Liberal Minority.
There is something that has been stuck in the forefront of my mind for the past week. Last week, Monday or Tuesday on my Dumb Don Politics, Jeff Norquay stated when asked that the Conservative Party will not release their election platform until the Writ is dropped.
The problem is that they have their item by item, word for word approval of their Platform Policies listed under a Link on their wedsite. Now I am thinking that their is some kind of election contraindication here.
The Policy convention held in Montreal was to bring Ontario East into the Conservative fold with a moderate Policy stance.
Now is Jeff Norquay now hinting that the Policy Convention Policies are a total bust? That the Party Members who approved these Policies are now going to over-ruled by the Leader and their Comms Department?
I am also picking up on the odd Conservative Blog out there that they are promoting the idea of getting out the Conservative Policies en-force because its the Policies stupid. I was getting the impression from these sites that if they got the Policy Word out that it would help change Ontario East voters minds towards the Conservatives, that Ontario East just has not been exposed to the Conservatives Policies, and once so, would see that they are a viable alternative.
Ok, so now I have Jeff Norquay of the Conservative Comms Dept stating no election platform but the bloggers are saying get the policies out there.
Why did not Jeff Norquay mention the Policy Platform as to that is what the Conservatives stand for?
I am going to muse that the Conservatives, seeing that their latest Policy Convention was not accepted by Ontario East will be ignored. That the Conservatives will come out with a "more" moderate stance. Now I bet some people will be saying that the election platform is derived from the Policies. Ok, but how do you expand on a word by word approval when those words are not accepted anyway?
Unless you read those words in, and read them down. To read them up would change the original policy.
So I expect a simple election platform, that is very general, that can be read into, to mean whatever the electoral location dictates. The actual mention of their Policy Platform will be ignored as in not mentioned during the campaign.
cheers :) majere
Lib - 34
Con - 29
NDP - 16
Green - 6
Ontario
Lib - 44
Con - 31
NDP - 16
So far looking at a strong Liberal Minority.
There is something that has been stuck in the forefront of my mind for the past week. Last week, Monday or Tuesday on my Dumb Don Politics, Jeff Norquay stated when asked that the Conservative Party will not release their election platform until the Writ is dropped.
The problem is that they have their item by item, word for word approval of their Platform Policies listed under a Link on their wedsite. Now I am thinking that their is some kind of election contraindication here.
The Policy convention held in Montreal was to bring Ontario East into the Conservative fold with a moderate Policy stance.
Now is Jeff Norquay now hinting that the Policy Convention Policies are a total bust? That the Party Members who approved these Policies are now going to over-ruled by the Leader and their Comms Department?
I am also picking up on the odd Conservative Blog out there that they are promoting the idea of getting out the Conservative Policies en-force because its the Policies stupid. I was getting the impression from these sites that if they got the Policy Word out that it would help change Ontario East voters minds towards the Conservatives, that Ontario East just has not been exposed to the Conservatives Policies, and once so, would see that they are a viable alternative.
Ok, so now I have Jeff Norquay of the Conservative Comms Dept stating no election platform but the bloggers are saying get the policies out there.
Why did not Jeff Norquay mention the Policy Platform as to that is what the Conservatives stand for?
I am going to muse that the Conservatives, seeing that their latest Policy Convention was not accepted by Ontario East will be ignored. That the Conservatives will come out with a "more" moderate stance. Now I bet some people will be saying that the election platform is derived from the Policies. Ok, but how do you expand on a word by word approval when those words are not accepted anyway?
Unless you read those words in, and read them down. To read them up would change the original policy.
So I expect a simple election platform, that is very general, that can be read into, to mean whatever the electoral location dictates. The actual mention of their Policy Platform will be ignored as in not mentioned during the campaign.
cheers :) majere
