Liberals’ support up two points in latest election poll
Posted Apr 5, 2011 9:16 am.
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TORONTO, Ont. – Conservative Leader Stephen Harper continues to warn against the consequences of another minority government as overnight tracking polls revealed a two-point swing in favour of the Liberals.
According to the latest Nanos Research poll for the Globe and Mail, the Tories are down to 39.8 per cent from 42 per cent, while the Liberals are up two percentage points to 30.2 per cent.
Meanwhile, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and Harper head into Quebec, Tuesday. The Nanos poll revealed both parties are tied at 20 per cent of the Quebec vote — just slightly ahead of NDP Leader Jack Layton.
The poll also found the Tories and Liberals are in a statistical tie in Ontario after the latter revealed the Red Book platform over the weekend.
Maclean’s magazine national editor Andrew Coyne analyzed the Liberal spending plan for CityNews.
“It’s kind of Trudeau-ism on the cheek; it seems like it’s being done more to reassure their base, their sort of good old-fashioned Liberals and to rally in, if they can, NDP supporters to try and unite the left, ” Coyne said.
Layton will be spending the day in Winnipeg, Man., while Green Party Leader Elizabeth May continues to campaign on the West Coast — as she waits to hear if the courts are going to rule that she has a legal right to be included in the televised leaders’ debates next week.
