{"id":10265,"date":"2011-07-14T17:08:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T21:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10265"},"modified":"2011-07-14T17:08:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T21:08:30","slug":"never-underestimate-the-tory-ability-to-pry-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/14\/never-underestimate-the-tory-ability-to-pry-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Never underestimate the Tory ability to pry defeat from the jaws of victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

The headline says “Ontario Tories have 11-point lead over Liberals: poll<\/a>“, but this is the good old Forward-Backward Party we’re talking about here — if anyone in Canada can pull a defeat out of this, it’s the Progressive Conservatives:<\/p>\n

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The Progressive Conservative party has blown open the race to form Ontario\u2019s next government, according to a new Ipsos Reid poll which shows the opposition Tories with a commanding, 11-point lead over Premier Dalton McGuinty\u2019s Liberals.<\/p>\n

That lead has grown by five percentage points in the last month alone. Tory popularity now stands at 42%, with the Liberals at 31%, according to the survey. The NDP is in third place, at 22% support.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s (PC leader Tim) Hudak\u2019s to lose,\u201d said pollster John Wright, senior vice president of Ipsos.<\/p>\n

Mr. Wright says the Liberals, who are besieged on both their left and right flanks, will have a difficult time clawing their way back to level in the polls ahead of the Oct. 6 election.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Between Mr. McGuinty’s teflon coating finally starting to wear out, and the Liberal party’s devout belief that the name “Mike Harris” is the “Avada Kedavra<\/em><\/a>” of Ontario politics, it may still turn out to be a bad October for the current government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The headline says “Ontario Tories have 11-point lead over Liberals: poll“, but this is the good old Forward-Backward Party we’re talking about here — if anyone in Canada can pull a defeat out of this, it’s the Progressive Conservatives: The Progressive Conservative party has blown open the race to form Ontario\u2019s next government, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,53],"tags":[584,188,87,739],"class_list":["post-10265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-politics","tag-daltonmcguinty","tag-electionwatch","tag-ontario","tag-timhudak"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Fz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10266,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10265\/revisions\/10266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}