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Africon

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Nanos Leadership Index and Ballot (2009-12-30)

• "Anyone can take a trend and smooth out the hills and valleys and little has changed. As a scientist" Are you one of those "scientists" from East Anglia tha...
• Wasn't it that drunk Liberal PM Mckenzie King that invited the psychics into 24 Sussex Drive ?

Nanos-Policy Options National Poll - Third Annual "Mood of Canada" Poll (2009-12-09)

• R & T you opinion really does not amount to much, those are the poll numbers, deal with it. Liberal support and iggy support are pretty bad, deal with it.
• Sorry, but I think that in general Canadians do care about stacks of 100 dollar bills in brown envelopes stolen by Liberals - a lot. I seriously doubt that ...

Nanos National Poll - Healthcare reclaims top issue of concern over economy (2009-11-24)

• "4. the largest federal deficit ever was unveiled today........ a true scandal if ever there was one and one the libs will have a lot of fun with." Ahem, ex...
• I don't know about "stamping out" the Liberals but who'd a thought 10 yrs ago that they'd be reduced to a minority in the Senate, only 7 seats west of Sudbur...
• c) complete paralysis -- with not even baby steps coming from the following nations: the United States, China, India, and Canada. My money is on C also. SH...
• True, however both men ARE politicians and will quickly switch gears as the public's views change. All that I am saying is the SH was often pummeled by Cana...

The public opinion environment for Canadian-American relations (2009-11-19)

• Not having idiots like Sheila Copps or Carolyn Parrish insulting our American neighbours any longer will be very helpful on this subject. How anybody can sup...
• It is also vital to keep in mind that both Mexico and Venezuela are running out of oil, while Canada has the ability to increase production steadily over the...

Conservative lead continues, Harper widens best PM advantage: Nanos Poll (Completed November 10th) (2009-11-14)

• Ronald - 'It boils my ass to see people using a reasoned and logical argument as a convenient cloak and excuse to DO NOTHING. Harper is right -- the big pol...
• "The voters regard this PM as competent but they don't TRUST him enough to bestow the keys to the kingdom." This is such a tired and over used load of crap ...
• ""Richard Colvin, now an "intelligence" officer at the Canadian embassy in Washington, said Canada took six times as many detainees as coalition partners fro...
• No, actually I'm not at all sure that there is any realistic expectation of hoping to have control of ANY kind in a broken and war-torn country of 25 million...
• Well, you just go ahead and do that, Ronald. I do not share the overconfidence you speak of. As we both know a whole lot can change in a few days in politic...
• OK, at least we agree that no one party has a lock on doing much on this file. I don't buy Al Gore's BS but I am very much in favor of the 3 R's in conserva...
• Absolutely agree with Brumist on the above comment. Take a look at this from De Spiegel yesterday. The Al Gore theory is cooling down, fast. http://www.spie...
• Perhaps when 80 - 90 of the Senators are Harper appointees, the Provinces may have a change of heart, at least the lefty ruled ones.
• I think that one thing that Ronald is missing in his reading of the tea leaves is that while the Cons have not broken out above 40% they do not need to IF th...
• Dion, his wife and Iggy are ALL completely out of touch with the ordinary voter and even worse lack the eloquence of PET who was also out of touch and a disa...
• That's a fascinating theory, Ronald. Care to identify the last 2 Canadian elections where something at all like that occurred ? And who, pray tell is this ...
• Ronald, just to be clear. When I said that PET was a disaster for this country, I meant primarily the debt that he stuck us with and if you would kindly cons...
• H1N1 is probably over, I agree - it was an absurd non-starter from the get go. Although it looks like Iggy and Co cannot get anything right, that cannot go o...