Liberals jump ahead over Harper Conservatives in polls
Posted Apr 12, 2013 1:14 pm.
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The Liberals are flying high in support ahead of their leadership announcement this Sunday.
A new Nanos research poll shows for the first time in four years, the Liberals are leading all political parties with 35 per cent support, while the Conservatives are at 31 per cent and the NDP has fallen to just under 24 per cent.
However, it’s not uncommon to see a party surge in support during and after a leadership race.
It’s widely believed that Justin Trudeau will be the person taking the top job of the Liberals and the buzz about a return of Trudeaumania may be giving them an added boost.
But Maclean’s Magazine’s Ottawa bureau chief John Geddes told 680News that it’s not clear if the Liberal love-in will last.
“It’s easy for them to get a balance in the polls. The question of course is sustaining it. Trudeau has two years to have to sustain that momentum,” Geddes said.
Geddes said he thinks it will be very hard for the Liberals to sustain the numbers in the two years leading up to the next election.
The last time the Liberals were polling ahead of the governing Conservatives was 2009 when Michael Ignatieff was elected leader. Before that, it was just before the 2008 election and before that it was in 2006 after Stephan Dion became leader.
In all of those examples, the Liberals weren’t been able to turn that support into stronger results at the ballot box.
