So, according to at least one poll, the Conservatives have opened a seven point lead on the Liberals, including a five point lead in Ontario.
I find it spectacular that the Conservatives can lead in any poll given the coverage they get in the mainstream media. Until someone can give me a good reason to read the Globe and Mail's staff columnists, I am no longer going to read any of them. (OK, except maybe Rex Murphy on Saturday and Margaret Wente when she writes on healthcare.) Their Harper hate-on is so severe it has clouded any sense of judgement they may have had and made them impossible to read.
And what's with Jeffrey Simpson's snide condescension toward people who listen to radio shows?
These crude, rude ads will backfire with the cluck-cluckers. But with those members of the open-line radio crowd who don't know much about Mr. Dion, they just might be effective -- even coming from a party and its predecessors that objected to serious action against climate change for more than a decade.
Also note that in a recent issue of the Globe (I don't remember which day and don't care to search) they had a bunch of "experts" analyze the Dion attack ads and shock: there was unanimous agreement that they were weak and ineffective! As Paul Wells notes, this new poll was done after their release.
Can anyone seriously blame Harper for not wanting to talk to these people? (Although he does anyway, at least as much -- if not more -- than past PMs, from what I can gather.) One of the first things you learn at Laval law school is that good faith is always presumed, but with Canada's leftwing punditocracy, sometimes you have to wonder.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 10:30 AM
