Ontario 2011 (6th October)

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Another poll.... http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/09/01/liberals-narrow-pc-lead-in-ontario-poll/

Tories - 35%
Liberals - 30%
NDP - 26%

So it's gonna be a three-way race. This won't be good for McGuinty once the voters catch on...

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Well, if you trust canvassing, 90% are undecided, but people lie.

In Canada, there must be far more undecided voters than in America because of the abundance of PC-Grit swing voters and NDP-Grit swing voters, correct?

Some of the wild swings Canada gets say that alone.

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Why is Dalton McGuinty nicknamed 'Dad' by the way?

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It comes from a series of Bloomberg-esque micro-regulations. He's banned, among other things: junk food sales in public schools; pit bulls; smoking on patios; displaying cigarettes in stores (in Ontario now you have to ask for the employee to get you cigarettes from behind this weird screen); smoking in cars with children in them (even your own car and your own children). A certain flavour of libertarian-conservative really hates this sort of thing.

Ontario's very own Tony Blair?

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Another Nanos sez PC 36.4, LIB 35.9, NDP 25.7, GRN 1.2

Ekos sez LIB 37.8, PC 30.6, NDP 22.7, GRN 7.3

Cross fingers that Ekos is correct.

What's with the disparity with the Greens?

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When it comes to making sense of these Ontario Green voting patterns, it's useful to keep in mind the "Tories with composters" label that's been attached to them...

Aren't Canadian Greens, in general, more right-wing than their international cousins anyway?