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Trust keeps McGuinty in contention ahead of Ontario dogfight
ADAM RADWANSKI
From Monday's Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Aug. 15, 2011 6:30AM EDT

Far from an inevitable comeuppance for Dalton McGuinty, as much of the coverage over the past couple of years has suggested, it appears the Oct. 6 election is well and truly up for grabs. What was briefly a yawning lead for Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives has, according to a new Nanos Research survey, shrunk to a few percentage points as Ontarians have begun to pay closer attention to their province’s politics.

Mr. McGuinty’s Liberals, the poll says, now have the support of 37.6 per cent of voters, relative to 42.1 per cent for the Tories.

According to the survey, there is not a single issue on which Mr. McGuinty is less trusted than his opponents – including even taxes and electricity costs, which are widely perceived to be his biggest vulnerabilities.

That Mr. McGuinty is still trailing at all with those numbers suggests that the biggest threat to his momentum – and the reason he still faces an uphill battle to win a third term – is simple voter fatigue, rather than unrest over specific decisions he’s made.

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