{"id":8630,"date":"2011-04-04T09:34:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T13:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8630"},"modified":"2011-04-04T09:54:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T13:54:51","slug":"politics-tories-have-terrible-week-yet-are-up-to-14-point-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/04\/politics-tories-have-terrible-week-yet-are-up-to-14-point-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics: Tories have terrible week, yet are up to 14 point lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most useful polling right now is coming from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanosresearch.com\/main.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Nanos Research<\/a>, who are conducting daily summaries of the previous three-day trend. After getting slapped around by the press much of last week, the Conservatives are . . . the only party making gains over the last three days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conservative: <strong>42%<\/strong>, up 1.6%<\/li>\n<li>Liberal: <strong>28%<\/strong>, down 1%<\/li>\n<li>NDP: <strong>16%<\/strong>, down 0.5%<\/li>\n<li>Bloc Quebecois: <strong>8%<\/strong>, unchanged<\/li>\n<li>Green: <strong>4%<\/strong>, down 0.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Twitter reactions are . . . surprised. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/InklessPW\/statuses\/54870003417223168\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Wells<\/a> &#8220;If the Conservatives lost week one and gained four points, the Liberals can&#8217;t afford to win many more weeks.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/acoyne\/statuses\/54872284598505472\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Coyne<\/a> &#8220;Another such victory and I come back to Epirus alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Updating the non-scientific, unbalanced sample of published polls:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2011_Election_Polls_0404.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2011_Election_Polls_0404\" width=\"418\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2011_Election_Polls_0404.jpg 418w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2011_Election_Polls_0404-150x125.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most useful polling right now is coming from Nanos Research, who are conducting daily summaries of the previous three-day trend. After getting slapped around by the press much of last week, the Conservatives are . . . the only party making gains over the last three days: Conservative: 42%, up 1.6% Liberal: 28%, down [&hellip;]<\/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":[6,53],"tags":[188,289],"class_list":["post-8630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","tag-electionwatch","tag-polls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2fc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630","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=8630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8636,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions\/8636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}