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Originally Posted by Hackslack
Is it honestly that surprising in the shift in polls? Con support has been increasing according to those latest polls, assuming they come from the Libs, just more support from the NDP are now supporting the Libs… it almost speaks more to the dislike of Sigh than it does the dislike of PP.
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I think its more people setting priorities.
The Liberals come across as a more experienced party when it comes to governing the country and handling a crisis. The Liberals have demonstrated they can adopt a "whole government" approach and provide a coordinated response to a threat. They have demonstrated they can work with the provinces to coordinate the response. They have demonstrated they can work with other countries.
The NDP have some strong socially progressive ideas that may sound interesting, however they have never been in government, so its a bit of a risk to go with them.
The Conservatives were in power 10 years ago. While they have experience governing lets face it is going to be a different team in power with a leader that has made a name for himself as someone who is good at finger pointing and floating "common sense" solutions. We know "common sense" is another name for assuming complex problems are not complex and implementing changes without doing your homework. Basically what Trump is doing.
We change governments around every 10 years. Each time it happens you lose some institutional knowledge at the very top and the first year is a bunch of senior people learning how to do their job. Ok, when we don't have a national crisis. Not ideal when we do.
Given the choice, I think some people who may like the Conservative or NDP platform better are going to go Liberal simple because of the experience knowing they can get it done.
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