VOTER COMMITTMENT - OCTOBER 13, 2008
Certainty of Voting in Tuesday’s Election
[OTTAWA – October 13, 2008] – In order to gauge voter commitment, we have been asking Canadians how certain they are to get out and vote on October 14th.
Based on our
Archive for Election Issues
POST-DEBATE POST-SCRIPT
Television Still King
[OTTAWA – October 7, 2008] – For all the talk of new media and the high-impact role they are playing in this political campaign, the fact is television is king, as it has been for nearly half a century.
VIEWS ON POLLING
Deep Ambivalence About Polls, Despite Increased Consumption & Use
HIGHLIGHTS:
-> Polls are increasingly used for strategic voting (by as many as 1 in 5)
ATTITUDES TO COALITIONS & ALLIANCES
Canadians Say “No” to Party Alliances
[OTTAWA – October 2, 2008] – Although most Canadians expect a minority government, they are not inclined to see formal alliances or coalitions emerge after the election. In many democracies where majorities are uncommon, in Europe for example, smaller parties forge coalitions of
PRE-DEBATE SURVEY
Well, At Least Dion Needn’t Worry About Excessive Expectations
[OTTAWA – October 1, 2008] – A miniscule 5% of Canadians expect Stéphane Dion to be the winner in the leaders’ debates tonight and tomorrow evening. Dion has said in the past that he loves being underestimated, and he certainly doesn’t need to worry about high expectations going into these debates, which mark the
ELECTION HARPER’S TO LOSE
EKOS ELECTION.COM – September 2008
Timely Harper Election Call Yields Formidable Advantages for the CPC – Including Weak Liberal Leadership
HIGHLIGHTS
National federal vote intention among decided voters: CPC 37%, LPC 24%, NDP 19%, Green Party 10%, and the BQ 6%
Conservatives also have the leadership advantage with Harper seen as “best Prime Minister” (32%), followed by Layton (19%); Dion is a distant third (12%)
Similar scores are given for leader “most trusted” to
ELECTION ISSUES
EKOS ELECTION.COM – September 2008
Canadians have the economic jitters now, but worry about the environment longer term
HIGHLIGHTS
More than half of Canadians (58%) say they believe Canada is already in a mild economic recession
Ninety per cent of Canadians say that the economy should be among the priority issues in this campaign
Almost two-thirds of Canadians see the issue of global warming as being the most important facing Canada in the medium-
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