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In the upcoming federal election how would you be likely to vote?
Based on Nigel's posts, his voting NDP seems a good guess.
A link about Ed Broadbent, the only previous federal NDP leader to take the NDP to first place in public opinion polls, albeit yet again only before an actual election:
I understand that most homes in urban areas do not get home mail delivery now. Won't the new policy level the playing field? Do the Liberals or NDP promise home delivery for all?
Paul, I think I got the positions of the Liberals wrong in the last reply to you.
The NDP is the party which promises to restore delivery to those who were cut off keep it going.
The Liberal policy, the way I understand it, is to halt further conversions to community boxes and study the situation. I consider that to be nothing to get excited about.
It's not all bad. If the NDP wins we can live off the fat of the land. Probably the stock market and dollar will suffer.
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Both the Liberals and NDP promise to restore mail where it's recently been taken away and to continue door to door delivery. I can see them keeping those unionized letter carrier jobs.
I don't know how others in the riding feel about the topic. However, last summer there were a lot of houses on this street which had Save Door To Door signs on their front lawn. I didn't.
The level playing field might well be a factor for people who don't get the service continuing to vote Conservative. I guess we'll know in a few months it it's a factor in the election.
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Fwiw, there are also We Vote CBC lawn signs poping up:
Below is a wikipedia link that's updated every so often, and which concerns serious or wider national opinion polling for the 2015 federal election than my humble chesstalk poll attempts. It should be interesting to see what happens in serious polling done soon after the 6 August TV debate; most of the commentary I've read or heard suggests Mulcair lost, Trudeau did better than expected, Harper was solid enough and May won (not that the Green Party will win the election), but no one suffered a knockout blow.
Below is a wikipedia link that's updated every so often, and which concerns serious or wider national opinion polling for the 2015 federal election than my humble chesstalk poll attempts. It should be interesting to see what happens in serious polling done soon after the 6 August TV debate; most of the commentary I've read or heard suggests Mulcair lost, Trudeau did better than expected, Harper was solid enough and May won (not that the Green Party will win the election), but no one suffered a knockout blow.
In the first post-6 August polls in the link I gave above, the NDP's trend line dipped a little, as I thought it might. Meanwhile, we may be entering the peak period of damage to the Cons' re-election prospects thanks to Nigel Wright at last testifying at the Duffy trial.
I would note that votes continue to trickle in for this chesstalk poll, even when it's not near the top of chesstalk's first page.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer
Below is a wikipedia link that's updated every so often, and which concerns serious or wider national opinion polling for the 2015 federal election than my humble chesstalk poll attempts. It should be interesting to see what happens in serious polling done soon after the 6 August TV debate; most of the commentary I've read or heard suggests Mulcair lost, Trudeau did better than expected, Harper was solid enough and May won (not that the Green Party will win the election), but no one suffered a knockout blow.
Bumping up this poll thread one last time. There's been only one more vote since I last did so, but maybe that'll change.
In the link I gave in the quote above, it seems somewhat surprising that the Cons have yet to take a substantial hit in more serious polling than I'm attempting, i.e. due to the ongoing Duffy trial.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer
In contrast to the ChessTalk poll, the recent Forum Poll has the NDP leading the Cons by almost 2 to 1 ratio. And the breakdown shows that the large NDP bias comes from the most educated group. While the supporters of the Conservative Party are from the unwashed masses - the least educated.
So can we conclude that the voters on ChessTalk skipped school to play chess?
I've heard that universities in Canada largely have a major left-wing bias, so there may well be some heavy indoctrination going on.
As I believe Gary Ruben once opined on chesstalk, on an unrelated subject, chess players on the whole have an IQ of 100 or more, and should be treated as having such.
[edit: Below is a link to a criticism that mentions perceived left wing bias within an important part of Canadian post secondary education.]
I've heard that universities in Canada largely have a major left-wing bias, so there may well be some heavy indoctrination going on.
OMFG. What a crock. The universities enforce a right wing conformity. Just look at the brutal silencing going on in academia. UBC case in point.
The right always fantasizes about how they're so hard done by. What it really means is that they face resistance. And they whine and whine about it..................
Last edited by Nigel Hanrahan; Saturday, 29th August, 2015, 01:23 PM.
Reason: resistance is never futile
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
Fwiw even the suspected-to-be-left-leaning wikipedia grudgingly admits to what it calls the left leaning of Canadian professors, based on an unquoted study that was actually done at UBC, dated 2011, the link for which I can't provide since it caused my computer security problems. The study coming from a possibly biased UBC source, I do not know:
I would be curious on how people score on this website. https://www.politicalcompass.org/ I am not making any claim that it is at all accurate, but still it would be interesting to see.
For reference I scored -2.38 for Left-right, -2.15 for Libertarism - Authoritarism. Which places me slightly left and libertarian of center.
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