Published today: Intriguing news on WTF TORY
Again, when I say “published,” all I mean is that I happened to post another item on WTF TORY earlier today. When I read in the National Post this morning that support for Harper’s Conservatives was “slipping,” I wanted to share it with someone.
What can I tell you? Harper’s bad news is my good news, I suppose. If that sounds petty or childish, then let’s think of it instead as good news for Canadians in general. I know what I said last night about pretending to approve of Harper’s performance just to lull him into a false sense of security, but I’ll take a drop of nearly ten points in the polls since mid-July just the same.
I mean, look at those numbers. “Slipping,” I think you’ll agree, is a bit of an understatement, even if it’s just a temporary drop with a rebound soon to follow.
“What’s more,” I said, “it was the census issue – which is arguably a result of the Harper government’s aversion to collecting data from Canadian [sic, I guess I got overexcited] that might jeopardize the party’s goals on the hill – that directly led to this specific set of numbers taking a dramatic turn towards the opposition. Talk about poetic justice!”
Obviously, that’s a matter of interpretation. One commenter on the Post’s website noted that “the Liberals have assured us that voluntary data is useless and un-Canadian,” which is an admittedly fair jab against the opposition – even though statisticians across the board agree that yes, making the census voluntary will essentially invalidate the results. That, after all, is why this whole thing is such a big deal.
But I’ll take that over the commenters whose immediate response was to yell about the numbers being nothing more than proof that EKOS and the mainstream media are “at it again,” as if this was all just a conspiracy to create what one complete dipshit called “a Liberal Bananna Republic.”
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