Saturday, December 06, 2008

On relative support

So much for the West being a monolithic sea of blue which would be looking to separate from Canada if a coalition government came to be. Instead, at least a couple of major cities showed exactly the same pattern of relative support for the coalition that not unexpectedly played out in Toronto and Montreal as well.

In Edmonton, the coalition's supporters outnumbered those who back the Cons' choice to shut down Parliament roughly 400 to 300.

And in Regina, I'm proud to be able to say that the 250 estimated for the pro-coalition rally far outnumber the less than 100 who showed up to back the Cons. (And this after Brad Wall and his Sask Party government spent the entire week in the Legislature blustering about federal politics rather than having anything to say about the province they're supposed to be governing.)

All of which might suggest that the first wave of polls unfavourable to the coalition may be far more a byproduct of the Cons' immediate rush to the airwaves than any real support for Harper's attempts to hide from democracy. And if the coalition does indeed enjoy a deeper level of support than the Cons, then that could signal a turn to come over the next couple of months.

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