Will we or won't we be going to the polls in 2011? The rhetoric has been ramped up again in recent days amongst the pundits with
MIA(Michael Ignatieff) bellowing, threatening to bring the government down in the New Year then only days later
he tones down that rhetoric a bit. Have we not seen this movie before? Anyway, even if we do end up going into an election in the near future, Conservatives not only have the edge in voter preference but
also lead on the issues as well. They look that they're more tuned into what the public is most concerned about than the opposition is.
Heading into the new year, Canadians have pegged the economy, health care and the environment as the three priorities they'd like to see politicians give the greatest attention to, the results showed.
"When you're going into an election, you're planning your strategy," said Darrell Bricker, a spokesman with Ipsos Reid, which conducted the poll exclusively for Postmedia News and Global Television. "So you have to find a salient issue, something that people really care about, and somewhere where you can daw a partisan difference between yourself and your opponents."
The Tories definitely have a leg up, Bricker said, with 29 per cent of Canadians polled saying they'd like to see the country's leaders focus on the economy.
"It just shows the strength of the Tory positioning because they're seen as the best on the biggest issue," he said. "The Liberals haven't found an issue, but the Tories have a 20 to 25 per cent advantage on just about every economic question you want to ask."
So Bricker states that the Liberals haven't found an issue,well that says a lot about the all the tours the leader has been on in the last year like the Magical Bus tour then the Open Mike tour. It says Liberals have not really listened to what is important to Canadians, that they're out of touch and the public is not buying what the Liberals are selling. That bodes well for the CPC going forward.
