Orange You Glad?

[bcholmes]

In one respect, the results of an Angus Reid poll to be released on Monday are not surprising — the Conservatives are at 35 per cent, the Liberals at 27 and the NDP are at 19 per cent; in Quebec, the Bloc leads with 37 per cent.

However, the poll also asked Canadians how they would vote if the Liberals and NDP went to the polls offering Canadians a coalition government, and here things get interesting.

According to the results published in Monday’s edition of La Presse, the Conservatives led by Stephen Harper would defeat a coalition led by Michael Ignatieff 40-34 per cent.

With Bob Rae as Liberal leader, the coalition and Conservatives would be tied.

However, if the coalition were to propose Jack Layton as prime minister, according to the Reid poll, it could defeat the Conservatives by 43-37 per cent.

— "Prime Minister Layton?", The Globe and Mail

Via james_nicoll.

Comments

[maize]

This is more in response to your post about neglecting LJ in favour of DW than it is to this, but I thought I'd ask here in case you were having trouble connecting there still.

Are your LJ posts a subset (or equal to) your posts here -- i.e., if I dropped you there and just read here, would I miss anything?

I keep meaning to take a poll of this, but I think I'm going to gradually start migrating to reading people here if they post the same stuff on both places.

[bcholmes]

In the past, the only thing that I posted to LJ but not to DW was a poll or two. It is my intention that LJ will be a strict subset of DW from now on.